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...deal was closed, Jackie Kennedy returned from a Hawaii vacation. "She reacted strenuously to the magazine idea," said Evan Thomas. "The promotion, the fireworks-it was bothering her emotionally." She was even more deeply disturbed after former Kennedy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, a neighbor of Manchester's near the Wesleyan University campus in Middletown, Conn., saw the author's agreement with Look. Goodwin, realizing that Manchester had assured the magazine of no interference from the Kennedys, took alarm. He and Manchester flew up to Hyannis Port with Look's publisher, Gardner Cowles, and there Jackie gave them...
...something of a wonder that the merger did not take place long ago. As early as 1803, one denominational precursor of the Wesleyan-spirited E.U.B. held tentative merger consultations with the Methodists; in 1871, another E.U.B. progenitor, the Evangelical Association, approved by one vote a union with the Methodists that was never consummated...
...since 1956 is the belief of many churchmen within both groups that the spirit has been that of a corporation merger rather than one of genuine Christian renewal. To these critics, the architects of the merger have muffed the chance to work out a new creed expressing the Wesleyan faith for modern times, failed to provide for an interlocking of Methodist and E.U.B. structures at the local level, and ignored the fundamental insights about the real nature of ecumenism that have been achieved by other church groups...
...version may be his best ever. Since a fluke 1-0 loss to Wesleyan, which was the outshot 27-16, Brown has been untouchable. It has reeled off nine straight wins and has upped its undefeated streak in Ivy competition...
Doug Hardin stretched his unbeaten string to eight races by winning the individual title in 22:40, 13.6 seconds off the record set earlier this year on Franklin's 4.7-mile short layout by Wesleyan's Ambrose Burfoot...