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...Glenns flew wearily off to London, the contest editors announced that the winner was a house painter who got Glenn to sign a prepaid telegram and sent it on to the Bild-Zeitung. His prize: three glorious, fun-filled days visiting a German rocket institute...
...Glorious Records." Nearly a generation after her crushing defeat in World War II, Japan is experiencing a wave of nostalgia for "the Pacific War." Every Sunday at 9 a.m., tots around the country gather before the TV to watch "Zero Fighter Hayato" knock a dozen American P-38s or Wildcats from the skies. Plastic-model Zero fighters and picture books are bestsellers from Hokkaido to Kyushu, while adults are now reading a book called Glorious Records, which praises the wartime Burma-Siam railway project that built the bridge over the River Kwai. A new series of junior high school history...
...African rite of blip [circumcision]." So far, her lip has been blipped at least 100 times. "It's beginning to sound like a razor-blade commercial," she complains happily. Unblipped, she sounds like a mildly bawdy grandmother. To her, the Golden Gate Bridge seems like "a great big glorious G string." She opined that Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman's wedding reception "lasted longer than the marriage." To get the kind of money Sinatra and Streisand earn for a performance, "I would have to have three of something...
...proof of their devotion to that end, the 800 delegates issued a unanimous resolution: "Ecumenicity, as expressed in the World Council of Churches, represents a false concept of Christian unity and has no Biblical basis; its leadership includes men who have apostatized from the faith, it betrays the glorious heritage of the 16th century Reformation and acts as an instrument for building an apostate super-church." The resolution ended with an appeal to groups belonging to the World Council to "withdraw from this unholy alliance...
...successor, yet to be found, would be "the best, most adventurous, imaginative, best-equipped doctor with vision in this country." The President even made a production of signing a minor bill giving postmasters a five-day week. Summoning 76 postmasters to the Rose Garden, L.B.J. allowed: "It is glorious that we can be here in this peaceful attitude and be making so much progress with, I think, the best Congress that was ever assembled." The Biggest. On signing the $7.5 billion housing bill, Johnson recalled, for an audience in the Rose Garden, that he grew up in a house without...