Religion: Words & Works

¶ The 2,000,000-member Lutheran Missouri Synod launched a "Senior Citizens' Project" to take systematic advantage of the spare time and energy of its elder laymen for "God-pleasing endeavors." The synod's Laymen's League will probably appropriate $10,000 to begin the project, prepare a manual to suggest jobs that will benefit both churches and oldsters.

¶ The U.S. wryly informed the Soviet Union that it is ready to accept a permanent Soviet clergyman in return for permission to send a new U.S. Roman Catholic priest to Moscow to replace ousted Father Georges Bissonnette.

¶ The plunging necklines and backless dresses of modern...

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