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...native of Tulsa, Davis, 56, is a florid, old-fashioned kind of orator who held pastorates at Chickasha, Okla., St. Joseph, Mo., and Wichita Falls, Texas (where he first preached to Johnson in 1959), before coming to National City in 1961. Even without presidential patronage, it was a flattering call. National City's worshipers have traditionally included Congressmen and Senators; among those who frequently attend these days are Generals Omar Bradley and Maxwell Taylor...
...records of their rivals. U.C.L.A., picked by most experts to win its third straight N.C.A.A. championship, dropped two games in a row to Duke. Duke thereby jumped all the way from No. 6 to No. 1, despite a loss to unranked South Carolina. Michigan lost 100-94 to Wichita State but still held the No. 3 spot. By contrast, St. Joseph's highflying Hawks were not only still undefeated, they had not come within 17 points of losing. In two games last week, they clobbered Albright, 85-54, and Michigan State...
Elsewhere, the road ahead looks equally bright. There is not a single stop light on the highways linking Cleveland to Boston (650 miles), St. Louis to Wichita Falls, Texas (658), and Macon, Ga., to Miami (580). The record for uninterrupted travel between major cities, however, still belongs to the New York-to-Chicago stretch. For 845 miles -through the connecting expressways and turnpikes of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois-there is nothing to make a motorist brake except fatigue, an emptying gas tank, a toll station, or a state trooper...
MARKE EVANS Wichita, Kans...
...Elected to a one-year term as moderator Wichita Lawyer William Phelps Thompson, 46. The fifth layman in recent years to serve in the largely ceremonial office of chief spokesman for the United Presbyterians, Thompson endorsed the confession as "a precise statement of what we believe that deals with present-day concerns...