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...Council has been instrumental in fostering an unprecedented atmosphere of contact and discussion between Protestants and Catholics. The Vatican was present at Uppsala in a message from Pope Paul expressing ecumenical affirmation, and in the form of 15 Catholics invited as nonvoting observers. The Council has also attempted to spur Christians into doing more about the ills of this world; its 1966 Geneva Conference on Church and Society, for example, stands as a landmark of clerical involvement in secular problems...
...reach his plane. Airport access roads are becoming altogether too crowded, and cities are searching for new ways to cover the distance. One is helicopters, but they have generally proved uneconomical to operate. Cleveland this fall will begin service on a 4.2-mile, $18,600,000 rapid-transit spur that will convey travelers by train from downtown to Hopkins Airport. New York is similarly experimenting with buses that can go part of the way to Kennedy by rail. Most cities, however, are unimpressed by fixed-route service, since downtown passengers are now only a fraction of the total. The remainder...
...nearly duplicated this scoring feat in the next game against Andover, as he tallied six times and added two assists to spur the team...
...cities? On the other hand, industrialization must not be taken to distant places that can be better used for other purposes. Industrializing Appalachia, for example, would smogify a naturally hazy region that settlers aptly named the Smokies. The right business for Appalachia is recreation; federal money could spur a really sizable tourist industry...
...bright but dreamy, and not yet committed to careers. Few are in the professional schools-business, engineering or medicine. Since many universities no longer demand compulsory attendance at lectures, they have the time to ring doorbells for a candidate or march for civil rights. Some sympathetic professors spur the activists on, grant them long periods off, extend deadlines for tests and theses...