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Divided Anglicans We are not divided, All one body we . . . So sang some 4,000 Londoners in Hyde Park one day last week to the thump of a Salvation Army band. With the Archbishop of Canterbury as keynote speaker, they were celebrating the United Christian Rally-one of the opening events in the Festival of Britain. Meanwhile, only a few blocks away in a church off Marble Arch, a Church of England service was being held expressly to proclaim the fact that even England's state church is divided and that Britain's Christians are not one body...
...mambo's relentless rhythm had already caused at least one homicide (in Mexico), had driven its practitioners to such wild exuberance in Peru that Cardinal Juan Gualberto Guevara of Lima denied absolution to anyone who danced it. In its fast, Afro-Cuban syncopation, the percussion instruments thump down on the offbeat while the brasses go up in high blaring dissonance. Its tunes have such titles as Mambo No. 5, El Ruletero (the taxi driver) and Pachito 'Eche, whose words in typical rhythm, go: "Who is it, who is it? I will...
This elusive thump will be heard at 7:30 p.m. as the CRIMSON opens its spring competition with free beer for all comers. Places are open on all boards--News, Business, Editorial, and Photography--for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors...
...Porter Square. For the occasion, the management had on hand a collection of bubble gum, balloons, and General Motors comic books which it passed out to the children, and a case of perfume for the ladies. The men got no gifts, but they did get a chance to thump the sides and probe the entrails of the new Chevrolet...
...sentence sound like the cry of a newsboy with an extra. Weary Senators drifted off to doze on black leather couches in corridors or handy offices, leaving a few sentinels to guard the Senate floor. Shortly after 2 a.m., one of Langer's roars, punctuated by a crashing thump of his fist, frightened a sleeping page boy and sent him sprawling off his chair onto the floor...