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Since 1867, the bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion have gathered at London's Lambeth Palace approximately every ten years to consider the state of their church. This year, some delegates doubted whether the Tenth Lambeth Conference, which convened last month, was worth holding at all. By last week, though, several notes of relevance had been introduced into the discussion, and there was hope that the conference might produce some lasting results for Anglicanism...
...When the tenth and final volume of their massive The Story of Civilization appeared last year, Historians Will (82) and Ariel (70) Durant promised readers one last postlude volume distilling the observations and conclusions of their 40-odd years of scholarship...
Three dozen high school students--"too old for post-office and too young for wife-swapping"--met, talked, and snacked together on the tenth floor of Holyoke Center last night. They will be at the Harvard Summer School this year along with the 5000 older folks...
Possibly because of his own size (6 ft. 4 in., 212 Ibs.), Continental Airlines President Robert Forman Six has an obsession about the company that he has headed for 30 years: he would like tenth-largest Continental to be the biggest in some aspect of the aviation industry. Last week, three days after his 61st birthday, Bob Six got his wish. At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, Continental's president dedicated a new $6,500,000 air-cargo terminal that is the biggest such structure in the world. If it were picked up, straightened...
...than Ford's. Two other corporations among the top ten also moved up. IBM, with sales of $5.3 billion and a lock on the biggest part of the world's computer sales, climbed from ninth place to seventh. Gulf Oil, with sales of $4.2 billion, moved from tenth to ninth...