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Your April 1 article on the Rev. Robert Gingery, the Methodist minister who killed the bank robber, says he "made his peace with God and with the Fifth Commandment." I think you have your commandments mixed, as the Fifth is "Honor thy father and thy mother." I think you should have said Sixth, which says "Thou shalt not kill...
...your report of Vice President Nixon's visit to Africa and his interview with my father, Nana Osae Djan II: my father speaks English extremely well. After graduating from a Methodist school, he taught school for several years. As for the gift of the ball-point pen, I would like to make it clear to you that in Ghana, when a chief sits in state, it is considered discourteous to refuse a gift, however petty. If my father did accept this pen, in the manner in which you reported, he did so out of respect to the American Government...
...placid Ohio River town of New Albany, Ind. (pop. 32,000) one day last week, a Methodist minister and an Indiana state policeman took time out to celebrate an anniversary: three years before, under the gentle, persistent prodding of the Rev. Robert W. Gingery, 37, burly, hard-boiled Sergeant Marvin Walts, 49, had given up the unequal struggle, and become a member of Gingery's Trinity Methodist Church. To honor the anniversary, Policeman Walts invited his minister to ride with him on a routine inspection of the countryside. Then, at 1:15 p.m., as they cruised along U.S. Highway...
...Trlis other meals are light; he tries to keep lunch within 300 calories and dinner within 700. He does not smoke, rarely drinks, and has few financial worries. His salary is $250,000 a year-more than any other life insurance executive. He is a family man, a good Methodist, and thriftily drives a well-weathered 1948 Cadillac. According to the Pru's actuarial tables. Policyholder Shanks has a good chance of living to be 77. When he dies, he will have the satisfaction of leaving his family secure. At a cost of $27,000 in premiums annually, something...
...Southern Methodist University's Jim Krebs is an oversized (6-ft.-8-in.) high-school flash from Webster Groves (Mo.) who.practiced for two years to sandpaper his game to its present smoothness. Now he can hold his own with the best. A cautious, careful player who thinks his way around a court, Krebs sports a hard, shallow hook shot that has started S.M.U. on a Southwest Conference title-winning kick.