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...first time in its 175 years, the Protestant Episcopal Church knows exactly what an Episcopalian is. At the 60th triennial General Convention in Detroit, the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies last week agreed on definitions of three terms: member, member in good standing, and communicant in good standing...
...quite speechless!" exclaimed the Most Rev. Arthur C. Lichtenberger, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Like everybody else at the Episcopalians' 60th triennial General Convention in Detroit last week, he was astonished at the speed with which the House of Bishops committed themselves to negotiate toward Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake's proposal for a four-church merger (TIME cover...
Last year's princely book was The Leopard, written largely in his 60th year by the late Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Duke of Palma. The current entry in the duke-of-the-year club is Ippolita, written by 75-year-old Alberto Denti di Pirajno, Duke of Pirajno. The resemblances between the two novels do not end there. They are both set in the 19th century amid the first revolutionary stirrings of Italian unification. To match The Leopard's feudally lavish autocratic hero, Don Fabrizio, there is the new book's feudally parsimonious autocratic heroine, Ippolita. Both books...
...heavy drinking. Flying direct from Vienna, he arrived just in time to greet Indonesia's wide-roaming President Sukarno, whom he presented with a car and a six-foot bronze statue of a Soviet sportswoman. Next night Khrushchev brought all the top Soviet brass to Sukarno's 60th birthday party, held on the lawn of the Indonesian embassy...
...Russians, at first refused to broach the subject to Moscow. Only when the Outer Seven put through the first mutual 20% tariff reductions and Finnish lumber and paper exporters began to lose sales to Swedish and Norwegian competition did Kekkonen speak up. Khrushchev came to Kekkonen's 60th birthday celebration last September, shared a private sauna with the Finnish President, emerged to give his grudging consent for Finland to become a qualified member of EFTA...