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...guests can listen to her speech while munching on tuna sandwiches and fruitcake. Republican Elise du Pont, 48, wife of retiring Governor Pierre S. du Pont IV, is seeking her first elected office by running for Delaware's sole House seat against the Democratic incumbent Tom Carper. Most observers think that the former housewife's fortune and famed last name give her a strong chance of winning. She insists rather plaintively that this view works against...
Once the maelstrom began to swirl along the streets, the burgeoning sense of black identity took hold of staid citizens, who once would have shown up merely for the spectacle. In Pittsburgh, Moses Carper, 35, the scholarly, bearded editor of a Negro neighborhood paper, declared: "When the first window shattered it was like a bell ringing. I was running in the streets, running from cops, running from my own fears. I had to know this involvement, and when it came, it was like a release...
Selling pews was drummed out of most Protestant churches long ago; yet Gilead Baptist Church in Detroit recently inaugurated a $1.20 weekly payment by each member for the "space" he takes in church. Bazaars are under fire: the Rev. Eugene Carper, director of research and strategy for the Massachusetts Council of Churches, thinks that bazaar workers should do some thing more beneficial for the spiritual life of the church, like visiting the sick and the aged in hospitals. But in May the Congregational church in wealthy Winnetka, a Chicago suburb, held a rummage sale that raised $40,000 from donated...
...cutting remarks about people who pass the table and then hails them aloud, saying, "You absolutely sweet and adorable man," or "Hello, you sweet son of a bitch." He mimics people with devastating and quite humorous precision. More often, however, he carps; and Harvey is really a phi beta carper...
Hanson Robbins and Tom Carper accounted for the 49 points gained in division A. In this category the sailors ended in a tie with Brown...