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...evidence of serenity. The very name of the school-the 135-year-old academic font of the 2.8 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod-is Latin for "harmony." Last week, however, Concordia, the largest Lutheran seminary in the world (690 students), was closed down by a student and faculty boycott. The reason: Concordia's president, the Rev. John H. Tietjen, 45, had been ousted on charges amounting to heresy...
Although Farah replaced the strikers, the company has been hard hit by a national boycott endorsed by the AFL-CIO and several large religious organization...
...referendum held Monday and Tuesday, 133 Lowell students voted to continue the three-year-old student boycott of the disciplinary body, which was created in 1969 to deal with student demonstrators. Only 38 said the House should choose delegates...
...Managing Editor Frederick Taylor outlawed the word "reform" on the conservative principle that not all change is for the better. The Journal has enormous impact on its main beat. On the day it ran a grim front-page report listing the expected impact of the Arab oil boycott, industry by industry, the stock market dropped 24 points...
...important time to build up the boycott," she said. "Unless victories are won this year, the possibilities will be less hopeful in the future...