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...Proud of You Fellows." No sooner had Johnson returned to the White House than an issue of national urgency came before him. He was informed that railway management and labor negotiators were nearing a settlement in their longstanding dispute. For days the President had overseen the efforts of the negotiators, who had set up shop in the Executive Office Building next door to the White House. Johnson used a number of persuasive techniques-including an appeal to the negotiators' patriotism that, to some, grew a little tiresome. Said a weary union vice president when a reporter asked him what...
...efficiency. During his ten years in his post, he has recruited 6,000 additional teachers, nearly doubled the salary scale, added enough classrooms to trim the average class from 39 pupils to 32, and eliminated all double-shift instruction despite a school-age population explosion. He has planned and overseen a $250 million building program, completed without a single major scandal...
...Christian Century and founding pastor of the big Church of the Holy Spirit in Elk Grove Village, 111., a Chicago suburb.-His own literary productivity is positively staggering: in the past five years he has written more than 300 articles, and in 1963 alone he will have overseen the publication of six books bearing his name as sole or joint author...
Under Dean Miller the Divinity School has returned to its basic aim: training men for the ministry. In the last four years Dean Miller has overseen a reworking of the program for the Bachelor of Divinity degree, the establishment of a Department of the Church to promote closer relations with parishes, and the inauguration of a series of "Reports from the Ministry" to bring students into closer contact with the problems of working clergymen...
...many-volumed histories that caused much of the sag in Victorian bookshelves have largely disappeared, but at least one U.S. historian still prefers to see his craft write large. He is Yale University's Kenneth Scott Latourette, 78, a precise, untiring Baptist minister, who has just overseen the publication of his 568-page The Twentieth Century Outside Europe (Harper & Row: $8.50), the fifth and final volume of a series entitled Christianity in a Revolutionary...