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...tribute to the drawing power of America's first skiing president. Thousands of people each day waited up to two hours for a gondola ride to the Mid-Vail ski bowl where Gerry Ford and a zillion Secret Service agents were learning the difference between a schuss and a wedel. Since Ford usually made his appearances between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.--in the height of the noonday sun--the sun decks outside the Mid-Vail ski lodge and the chairlift lines snaking at its base swelled during these hours. All those beautiful people, each with nearly $800 worth...
...Three years ago, the National Council of Churches elected its first woman president, Episcopal Laywoman Cynthia Wedel. Last week in Dallas, the N.C.C. General Assembly chose as her successor its first black president: the Rev. W. Sterling Cary, 45. Cary is currently chief administrator of the 91 United Church of Christ congregations in metropolitan New York City. He brings to the titular office a broad ecumenical background: ordination by the National Baptist Convention, pastorates in an interdenominational church, a Presbyterian church, and a United Church of Christ congregation in Harlem. In a statement accompanying the news of his election, Cary...
...Cobo Hall. In its meetings, at least, the N.C.C. was clearly in tune with the national mood: the air was filled with accusations, polemics, threats, name-calling and disruption. For all that, the assembly still elected the full slate of official nominees, including its first woman president, Cynthia Wedel, 61. A brief rebellion, opposing her and incumbent General Secretary R. H. Edwin Espy with black candidates, failed...
...contested elections for high office, Challenger Leon Watts was defeated by General Secretary Espy, 382-100, and Mrs. Wedel outdrew Albert Cleage for president, 387-93. A former vice president of the N.C.C. and wife of Episcopal Canon Theodore O. Wedel, Mrs. Wedel will succeed Arthur S. Flemming, former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...Donnerwetter!" The son of a physician in the small market town of Wedel, Holstein, young Barlach early learned to respect the mute suffering of the peasant as well as his unexpected guffaws of humor -both of which he later incorporated into his work. But it was not until his mid 30s that he found himself as an artist, after years of academic art courses at Hamburg and Dresden, followed by an unproductive trip to Paris...