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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...
Although the House of Bishops chose Allin on their second ballot by a vote of 84 to 58 for the nearest contender, liberals in the House of Deputies took an unprecedented stand against the selection. The deputies' confirmation has traditionally been pro forma. Debate about Allin's qualifications, however, kept the bishops waiting in Louisville's Christ Church Cathedral for 4½ hours before he received the deputies' mixed approval. Allin tried immediately to reassure the House of Deputies, declaring that "what we have learned in the '60s we must not forget." But he also...
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...