Word: anson
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...surface of Santa Barbara Channel at a rate of almost 1,000 gallons an hour spilled across the blue water for eleven days. It finally coated an area of at least 400 square miles and fouled 40 miles of incomparable beach front with acrid, tarlike slime. TIME Correspondent Robert Anson, flying over the despoiled sea, found the fumes noxious at 1,000 feet...
...supervise communications between the last frontier and the cloth, Hefner chose onetime Zoologist Anson Mount, the magazine's football editor, appointed him six months ago to head a new religion department. People who saw this move as a rather amusing put-on overestimate Hefner's sense of humor. It was all very serious, and frivolous staffers were discouraged from making jokes involving "sermon" and "Mount." Recalls the new religion editor: "I found myself over my head with things like personhood, demythologizing, Bonhoeffer. So I went to Hefner and said, 'Man, I've got to go off to school and learn...
...Bishop James A. Pike, the committee claims to have pledges of deposit withdrawals totaling $22 million. Defenders of the committee argue that there is ample precedent for such a boycott: most Protestant churches refuse to invest in companies that manufacture alcohol or tobacco products. Boston's Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. believes that the churches should no more support apartheid, even implicitly, than they should buy "real estate that was being used as a brothel...
Boston's Crosscup-Pishon Post 281 of the American Legion printed its ecumenical announcements with pictures of its 1966 Good Government Award winners: Richard Cardinal Gushing, 70, Massachusetts Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., 60, and Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, 55, of Boston's Temple Israel. Oops. The legionnaires discovered that Rabbi Gittelsohn had been a sponsor of the peace march on Washington, withdrew the rabbi's award and printed new flyers showing Gushing and Stokes. Ouch. The Episcopal bishop protested that the rabbi had a right to protest and then himself refused the award. The Legion...
Boston's three medical schools are still hard up for bodies, and Harvard University's Dr. Benjamin Spector has enlisted the support of Richard Cardinal Cushing, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn and Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. "The clergy are behind this now," says Dr. Spector. Most people who donate their bodies feel they are doing something useful for society as well as saving funeral expenses...