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...then suddenly withdrew his candidacy. His reason: he had searched his heart and found that God willed it. That left the way clear for a crusading conservative, the Rev. K. Owen White, 60, a Houston pastor and president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. He won by a scant 157 votes out of more than 8,000 cast over a little-known, third-choice moderate. White was the engineer of the 1962 convention's repudiation of liberal scholarship in Baptist seminaries. Focus of his attack was a book called The Message of Genesis, by ousted Seminary Professor Ralph...
...asked Spots to run," Shoemaker said sadly, "but he just wasn't there." One horse was there: Chateaugay. Ranging up on the outside, Chateaugay zoomed past No Robbery as if the two were traveling in opposite directions. Then he caught Candy Spots, and at the eighth pole, scant strides from the finish, Chateaugay pulled alongside Never Bend. He hung for an instant, and Jockey Baeza went to his whip. "It meant so much," he said. "I couldn't let him do that to me." Chateaugay drew out and at the finish he was 1¼ lengths in front...
...Even the biggest and most reputable of brokerage houses were at times extremely careless. Proceeding on only scant and unchecked information, branches of Mer rill Lynch and Shearson, Hammill & Co., among others, pushed some high-flying glamour issues that soon collapsed. Among them: Aquafilter, U.S. Automatic Merchandising Corp...
...Dead Sea area has for centuries been buffeted by infernal winds from the Arabian desert, seared by temperatures that often reach 120° and relieved by a scant two inches of rainfall a year. Nature has compensated for its cruelty with a bounty: the Dead Sea holds some 47 billion tons of minerals, which make it one of the world's richest mineral storehouses. At the southern tip of the sea, near the spot where Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt, Israel is using nature's largesse for an economic boom that is revitalizing...
Judged by the record, the odds against a newborn daily newspaper's surviving infancy are astronomical. In Phoenix, Ariz., those long odds overtook the nation's youngest metropolitan daily, the Arizona Journal. Scant weeks short of its first birthday, the Journal found itself out of print, out of money, heavily in debt, and laid out for burial. About all that kept the infant paper out of the grave was a flicker of outside interest...