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Some of the underlying philosophical differences which had simmered through most of the week-long gathering were about to be translated into intolerant invective. For five days now, the 450 conference participants brought together in Ann Arbor, Michigan, had sought comprehensive strategies to make their religion a part of the solution to social and political injustices, both national and international. From the beginning of the conference, the diversity had been manifest with differing philosophies, analyses and strategies. The differences had grown with the organization, which was started six years before to protest the escalation in Vietnam. The leadership--concerned that...
...wrenching contradictions had been there from the first day. Tuesday, August 17. Driving to Ann Arbor through the dull flatlands of Michigan, we felt distant from any problems: the driver cruising at 85, the recurring billboard--"Farmer Pete's People Pleasin' Meats", the popular song on the radio, George Harrison's "Bengla Desh," ("So many people are dyin' fast....") The mood at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor was serious. Jock Brown's "guerrilla liturgy" the first evening set the tone of searching for an awareness of each individual's complicity in the war. Jock, a minister from...
Williams is being vindicated. Last week his experimental car, a specially fitted American Motors Hornet, with a turbine engine tucked away under the hood, made its first appearance. Whining slightly, it was tested at the federal Environmental Protection Agency's lab at Ann Arbor, Mich. EPA officials were delighted with the engine, which works by using compressed air to drive its turbines. Compact, vibrationless and delivering 80 h.p., it runs on any hydrocarbon fuel from kerosene to coal oil. and gets about 15 miles per gallon in urban traffic. It is also 30% lighter...
KATHY HENDRICKSON Ann Arbor, Mich...
WILLY REMEMBERS by Irvin Faust. 249 pages. Arbor House...