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...that a Southern Baptist could become intellectually convinced by the claims of Catholicism. Yet, accustomed as he is to a tradition of free prayer, Bible-centered sermons and mighty hymns, he might still feel alien to a church that offers its believers private confession of sins to a priest, solemn Mass with incense and chant, and worship mostly confined to set liturgical forms...
Elephants & Trucks. Since 1959, the 800-mile labyrinth of jungle tracks, muddy rivers and bamboo way stations within Laotian territory has been the major route south for some 45,000 Communist infiltrators heading to battle in South Viet Nam. This, despite North Viet Nam's solemn signature on the 1962 Geneva accord guaranteeing Laos' neutrality and barring foreign troops from Laotian soil. The infiltration now comes to an estimated 4,500 bo dot (regular infantrymen) a month. More than one third of the "trail" has been converted into broad-shouldered, two-lane dirt highways. Truck convoys move...
...ever confined to old people. And the old people are more than ever out of the way, many of them in playpen "Sunset Villages." Their absence, and the universality of the hospital, means that dying is done offstage; gone are the hushed house, the doctor's visits, the solemn faces, the deathbed scenes that put death in life's perspective. Children of the TV generation are such strangers to natural death that on hearing that Grandfather is dead, they have been known to ask: "Who shot...
...state ballroom of Buckingham Palace and bowed shyly. "How long have you been together now?" the Queen asked softly. "Oh, for many years," muttered Paul McCartney. Then Queen Elizabeth II pinned the silver badges of Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire on their solemn, ungear suits. Outside, things were normal again, with a few hundred caterwauling kids trying to crash the palace gates and the Beatles bubbling Liverpudlian again. "She's got a keen pad," whooped Paul, "and I liked the staff. I thought they'd be dukes and things, but they were just...
...with measured stridence, told Wilson it was his last chance to avert "the implementation and consequences" of "our decision," demanded again exactly what he had been demanding before: independence under the present constitution. But there was one thin straw of hope in the message: "We again offer you a solemn treaty to guarantee our undertaking...