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Summer, Brown's sixth film, is an uncritical ode to sun, sand, skin and surf that first came to light on the West Coast lecture circuit, proved its box-office potential with a splashdown in landlocked Wichita, Kans. Now audiences everywhere, surf-bored by the dry run of Hollywood's beach-party musicals, may relish the joys of Summer as it follows a pair of skillful California surfers, Mike Hynson and Robert August, on a three-month, round-the-world tour in search of the perfect wave...
...first time in its history, a layman has become chief executive officer in the 3,300,000-member United Presbyterian Church. At the Presbyterians' 178th General Assembly in Boston last week, delegates elected Wichita Lawyer William Phelps Thompson, 47, as their new Stated Clerk over two other candidates, both ministers. Thompson, who for the past year has held the largely ceremonial office of moderator, succeeds the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, the new General Secretary of the World Council of Churches...
...contrast to Blake, the ecclesiastical professional, Thompson calls his dedication to church work a hobby. Born in Beloit, Kans., he is an elder of Wichita's First Presbyterian Church, has served on major Presbyterian committees since 1958. Thompson has a long record of community involvement in Wichita. He is chairman of the Civic Music Association, and helped to organize a local political reform movement (he is a registered Democrat...
DOROTHY M. WILSON Wichita Falls, Texas...
...persuade some investors that land is a safer outlet. Heavy buying has lifted the price of farms near Minneapolis by 20% in the past year; land five miles from the center of Youngstown, Ohio, has quadrupled from $500 to $2,000 an acre in eight years. The city of Wichita recently paid $600 for cornfields along the Arkansas River that formerly brought $400 an acre, in order to use them as a city dump; other land near by with industrial possibilities is going for $1,000 an acre. "This has taken on the dimensions of a national land lottery," insists...