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For Maurice Tobin, McCarthy had magnanimous indulgence: "A fine young gentleman* who was ordered to do a job, and he did that job." Then, diving frequently into his brown bag for a black photostat, a picture, or a wad of congressional transcript, he turned his buckshot on his archenemies, Secretary...
Since that first plunge in 1947, Father Simon's annual water sports have raised enough money for him to paint the church and begin work on the chapel. "Now that the church is gay," his parishioners say, "we come more readily to pray there." Father Simon still owes some...
Last Sunday, as he climbed to his new diving platform, he felt "as calm as when I sip a glass of liqueur after dinner." He plummeted down & down in a perfect swan dive. As he came up, blinking, the crowd cheered happily for their "cure sportif."
It's a far cry from Saône (see above) to San Antonio, but pastoral problems are similar the world over. William Stuart McBirnie, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, doesn't have to resort to high-diving to keep a roof over his congregation's head...
Can the human frame stand the painful acceleration (at least three times the pull of gravity for the first 9½ minutes) needed to propel a rocket into a permanent orbit around the earth? Perhaps, say the scientists-if the cabin is properly air-conditioned, if the passengers' heads...