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...theology, Manhattan's famed old (founded in 1825 ) Broadway Presbyterian Church is conservative: its ministers have always been evangelical, fundamentalists who adhere strictly to the Westminster Confession. By contrast, the Presbytery of New York-a group of ministers and elders from Manhattan, The Bronx and Staten Island who form a sort of churchly senate-tends toward liberalism; influenced by the open-mindedness of Union Theological Seminary, it is one of the forward-looking branches of the United Presbyterian Church. Over the years, the presbytery has more and more frowned upon the Broadway Church, especially since the church serves...
Last week a band of oilmen said that they will build the biggest line of them all: a yard-wide pipe that, when it is completed late next year, will pump gasoline, kerosene, furnace oil and diesel fuel over 1,600 miles from Houston to New York's Staten Island and to 1,000 miles of spur lines in between. The $350 million pipe, biggest privately financed construction job in history, will be bankrolled by nine oil majors. They are: American Oil, Cities Service, Continental, Gulf, Phillips, Pure Oil, Sinclair, Socony Mobil and Texaco...
Last week, in a Boston federal court, the star witness was to be Goldfine's longtime secretary, Miss Mildred Paperman, Goldfine, who suffered a stroke in December, had been transferred to a Staten Island hospital after serving half of a one-year prison sentence for evading nearly $800,000 in taxes, and was deemed mentally unfit to testify...
...stronghold, or at least to come close. But even in defeat, Republicans, long lacking an effective city organization, had some reason to feel encouraged by the outcome. Lefkowitz, polling 836,553 votes, did better than expected and carried ten of 65 assembly districts, including the entire borough of Richmond (Staten Island), which Wagner won by 18,600 votes in 1957. In The Bronx, running with the support of the labor-backed Liberal Party, Republican Joseph F. Periconi won the borough presidency from a hand-picked candidate of Congressman Charles Buckley, most puissant of the Democratic bosses...
...NUTT Staten Island...