Word: sydnor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that his two previous cover stories were the Computer (April 2) and the Mars mission's William Pickering (July 23). There is a third member of this crew for whom it is difficult to find a counterpart in the space analogy. This is the SCIENCE researcher, Fortunata Sydnor Trapnell, whose store of facts and figures on the subject might startle some of NASA's experts...
...Sunday nearest George Washington's birthday, U.S. Presidents generally attend services at Christ Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Va., where Washington himself was a vestryman. John Kennedy was one exception, and for a while it appeared that Lyndon Johnson would be another: he informed the Rev. William Sydnor, rector of the 192-year-old church, that he would be unable to appear, then suddenly changed his mind...
Escorting the President into the church, Sydnor took him to Pew No. 60, which has been restored to its original condition, right down to a place for the heated bricks that Washington and his family used to warm their feet. Sydnor explained that Washington always sat in the far corner of the pew, so that with only a slight turn of his head he could see both the front of the church and the congregation and thus "have a command of the situation." Lyndon sat where Washington had, in full command...
During the services, Sydnor baptized a two-month-old girl, took the baby to the President, who rose, unfastened his gold "L.B.J. '64" tie clasp, attached it to the baby's dress. In his sermon, Sydnor said that "perhaps the greatest single need of our world is reconciliation -reconciliation between husband and wife, labor and management, race and race, nation and nation." Afterward, over coffee in the parish hall, the President told Mrs. Sydnor: "The rector must have written that sermon for me. That's the business I'm in, you know, the business of reconciliation...
...William Sydnor says that those of us who are voting the Goldwater-Miller ticket are not Christians and are committing the sin of ardent nationalism. Since when, may we ask, is patriotism a sin? Evidently he believes that there is only one way to achieve brotherly love and world peace-by voting the Democratic ticket. May we suggest that he check into the personal integrity and character of both Mr. Goldwater and Mr. Johnson...