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...wants more clergymen. Latin America has 35% of the world's Catholics but only 8.7% of its priests. CELAM's plan is to establish new seminaries in Latin America to train native clergy. In the meantime, it wants more Spanish and other foreign priests to fill the gap...
Then, at 6:37 of the third quarter, the varsity went ahead, to 21-7, on Botsford's second touchdown. But Brown retaliated four minutes later to close the gap, and, with less than two minutes to play, the Bruins tied it up. It was a great day for Botsford, who gained about 80 yards rushing and completed seven of eleven passes...
Arizona: Trailing in the pollsters' books only a few weeks ago, Republican Incumbent Barry Goldwater, 49, closed the gap with a flurry of TV talks, trimmed outgoing Governor Ernest McFarland after a bare-knuckle campaign that had the rancor of a personal feud. By beating McFarland, despite the Democratic trend, by winning in the teeth of Big Labor's threat to get him, unabashedly conservative Barry Goldwater emerged as Capitol Hill's No. 1 spokesman of the Republican right wing...
...rose more than seasonally in September, and for the first time exceeded a comparable 1957 month. Manufacturers' sales, especially durables, were still slowed down by new model changes and by cautious buying for inventories by distributors and retailers. But with retail sales on the rise, merchants expected the gap between increased manufacturers' new orders and sales to be only temporary (see chart). Other recovery items...
...began convincingly enough, as left end Frank Sullivan blocked a Penn punt in the first quarter and raced to a tally. Steve Cohen kicked the extra point and the Crimson led 7 to 0. A Penn touchdown in the second period closed the gap to 7-6, and in the third quarter the Penn kicker booted a tremendous 40-yard field goal to put the Quakers ahead, 9 to 7. Another Penn touchdown and conversion accounted for the final score...