Word: sixteener
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...argues Bishop Wand, that it is the destiny of Anglicanism to disappear into new forms of Christianity, "just as it is the destiny of a river to merge with the sea." Sixteen years ago, four Anglican dioceses left the communion to join with a number of Protestant groups in the new and lively Church of South India. Other Anglican provinces are considering the possibility of similar united churches in Ceylon, Pakistan and North India, Japan and Australia. In the U.S., Episcopal leaders are continuing to discuss the Blake-Pike proposals for a new superchurch encompassing six major Protestant bodies...
...ashes. He is Amram Blau, 63, leader of a fanatical Mea She'arim sect called the Neturei Karta (guardians of the city). Sabbath elapsed. Then Blau exhorted his disciples, in broad-brimmed black hats, to loose volleys of stones, pelting city buses, breaking windows and injuring some cops. Sixteen of his zealots are awaiting trial...
...classification in the California State Employment offices is the "pool sitter," a job for teen-agers who can produce a Red Cross Junior Life Saving Certificate. Earning up to $100 a month for this part-time task, teen-agers are taking to it like ducks to water. One sweet sixteen sends out calling cards to pool-owning parents, advertising: "Have Bikini, Will Babysit...
...Sixteen year-old Dickie An Hoyt proved the most exciting skier in the tournament by winning the girls' sialom and trick events. Her total of 288 trick points was only 10 points off her three week-old record...
...Solo at Sixteen. But Cooper's doubters missed a central point. Aimless as he may sometimes seem on earth, he is a man with a mission-"to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster." Explains a close friend: "All Gordon Cooper is, is a pilot. He's a good one and a smart one, and that's all he wants...