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...Methodist Church. Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam once hinted, needed both the whirlwind evangelist and the stable, district-bound administrator; for it owed as much to George Whitefield, who "preached and passed," as to John Wesley, who "organized and abided." Methodist Oxnam, who died last week at 71 from bronchial pneumonia,* shared in the qualities of both men. No U.S. Protestant leader of his time preached more ardently about the causes he cared for; few churchmen were his equal at the homely, slighted arts of governing a district or chairing a conference...
...very far from the whirlwind glamour of Senatorial and gubernatorial races, five men and a woman have been battling all fall to represent Cambridge's middle district (Harvard Sq. and half of Central Square) in the Massachusetts House of Representatives...
...always, many House races will be decided because of fresh new personalities and faces. In normally Republican North Dakota, Incumbent Hjalmar Nygaard, 56, should win but has to contend with the whirlwind drive of handsome Democrat Scott Anderson, who is only 25-minimum age for a Congressman. A political whiz kid, Anderson was elected to the legislature at 21, managed the successful campaigns of Senator Quentin Burdick and Governor William...
Aside from Beer, the only other Harvard faculty member taking an active part in the Kennedy campaign is John Plank, Assistant Professor of Government, and an expert on Latin America who accompanied Kennedy on a whirlwind tour South of the border in the latter part...
...while he waited for 3½ minutes-Palmer now could not miss. He birdied the ninth and eleventh holes, holed another birdie on the twelfth, and sliced Nicklaus' margin to a single stroke. Scoreboards flashed the news, and fans flocked back to watch Palmer stage another of those whirlwind rallies that have made him the most exciting golfer of his time...