Word: allin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decade, the once conservative Episcopal Church has flowered into one of the most progressive of mainstream Protestant denominations in the U.S. But last week, at their 64th triennial convention in Louisville, the Episcopalians abruptly applied the brakes to innovation. The House of Bishops elected the Right Rev. John M. Allin, 52, of Mississippi-the most conservative of five candidates-as their new Presiding Bishop, the church's chief executive. Moreover, the lower clergy and laity who constitute the House of Deputies unexpectedly defeated a proposal to ordain women as priests...
...Bishop Allin is not exactly a right-winger, although he is known to be critical of several of his predecessor's policies. Allin is a Southern white, born in Arkansas, who earned his divinity degree at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. His record as Bishop of Mississippi includes the rebuilding of burned-out black churches in the state, but Allin's Deep South background alienated militant blacks and Northern white liberals at the convention...
Directed by ROBERT C. CLOUSE Screenplay by MICHAEL ALLIN...
...Boston, most of its original critics now praise it. Yet other critics still complain that it will increase the densities of both people and autos. Since these are problems common to all skyscrapers, they raise the question of whether any more such supertowers should be built anywhere. C. Allin Cornell, associate professor of civil engineering at M.I.T., compares the skyscraper to the supersonic jets, and adds: "I can't think of any advantage...
...Jesse Carlyle) Snead, 29, a nephew of Golfing Great Sam Snead and a onetime minor league outfielder who was No. 112 on the P.G.A. money list last year, made himself $52,000 richer by finishing No. 1 in both the Tucson and Doral-Eastern Opens. Then Brian Allin, 26, a redheaded rookie who weighs all of 145 Ibs., won the $38,000 top prize in the Greater Greensboro Open. Hubert Green, 24, yet another rookie, made off with $25,000 by winning the Houston Invitational...