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...head of the British Council of Churches, the Archbishop of Canterbury welcomed them all to Britain, immediately touched a Baptist sore spot by making a plea for "the drawing together of the Church of Christ in the ecumenical movement." He got a quick answer from jovial, chubby Alliance President F. (for Fred) Townley Lord, a London pastor. Said Lord: "We decline to equate brotherly cooperation with sacrifice of essential principles . . . We do not share the views of those who talk about organizational division of Christendom...
...relatively immature. And he's imperturbable. He doesn't care what others think of him, and before long the others lock him up. He doesn't care even then. An I-4 in civilian life doesn't have too much trouble. He gets sore at the boss, swears at him and quits, and is all right again. But you can't do that in the Navy or the Marines...
Understandably, though, the Dodgers prize his pitching most of all. With the rest of their staff suffering from an exasperating assortment of sore arms. Don Newcombe's record of 15-1 counts high in the Dodgers' comfortable 12½-game lead on the rest of the league...
...this step. Quietly, over the decades, more and more U.S. workers have shifted from an hourly wage to an annual salary basis, but the change was established as a contract right for relatively few workers. Before the U.A.W. was born in 1936, seasonal layoffs were recognized as an especially sore spot in the labor situation of the auto industry. The C.I.O.'s late President Phil Murray got nowhere in 1944 when he bid for the guaranteed annual wage. But Reuther (who succeeded Murray as C.I.O. president) and his tough, 1,523,000-man United Auto Workers made the most...
...task ... of trying to persuade the poor to vote the rich back into power . . . Eden has been the best-looking man in British politics for 40 years . . . He's been sitting on his charger waiting for Sir Winston to ride and . . . now he's a bit saddle-sore...