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...flush of success, Butler sent poorly officered troops into combat at Big Bethel-the war's first battle-and got whipped. Though Big Bethel was soon forgotten in the greater Union calamity at Bull Run, it established Butler's reputation as an inept field commander. But when New Orleans was taken, Butler was sent to take over the occupation...
...what Americans drink, believe that there is an increasing trend to drinks in which the whisky taste is either disguised or nonexistent. This theory is behind the biggest ingredient in Heublein's success: vodka. The company paid a White Russian $14,000 for his Smirnoff distillery in Bethel, Conn., in 1939, but did not really decide until the 1950s to convert whisky-drinking Americans to the almost tasteless drink...
Orange Streamer. It was a mercy mission to save the life of Seabee Bethel McMullen of Port Hueneme, Calif., who had fallen from the second story of the McMurdo base fire station and landed so heavily that he nearly scalped himself and suffered cerebral concussion and a fractured spine. Because his legs were paralyzed, McMullen was placed in traction, and word was flashed to Washington that an immediate operation was necessary to save his life. There are no surgeons among the reduced 215-man winter staff on the icecap, and the Navy ordered a U.S. surgical team to risk...
Relaxing Tension. Trickling down to congregational level, ecumenism has notably relaxed sociological tension, created a national fad for visits to other people's churches. In Pittsburgh, estimates the Rev. Donald Prytherch of Bethel United Presbyterian Church, at least one-third of all Protestant sermons now make reference to Christian unity. "This simply couldn't have happened five years ago," he says. Kansas City's Country Club Christian Church has invited pastors from 31 different denominations to speak from its pulpit...
...Bethel Mennonite Church...