Word: carson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Presbyterian Leader Eugene Carson Blake first proposed the idea from the pulpit of San Francisco's Episcopal Grace Cathedral in 1960, it electrified U.S. Christianity: as a step toward ultimate church reunion, he said, mainstream American Protestants must unite. At the time, Blake optimistically predicted that the project would need ten years to bear any fruit at all; pessimists seemed to think it was impossible. Last week, as the Consultation on Church Union met for the eighth time in Atlanta to carry forward Blake's pioneering proposal, it appeared that the participants were willing to accept...
...Daytona's Number One Psychedelic Nite Spot draws some junior high kids whose parents belong to Oceanside Country Club and to the Palmetto Club Juniors. (Mom or Dad let off Flea and Susy about nine on Main Street, and pick 'em up in their Toronado halfway through the Johnny Carson show. They couldn't have done that when the bikies ran the "Q," but there haven't been any busted lips or broken chairs for a couple of years since the town started shooting speed away from the Speedway.) Gayle was nice, she was going to be editor...
Quickening Stride. Criticism of PAD rolls right off Hefner's back. "I know how good the show is," he says. "It's better than the Johnny Carson Show or the Joey Bishop Show, and I do a better job hosting than Ed Sullivan does." He is so convinced that the show will be a success (and indeed, the ratings have been remarkably good) that he is already planning 26 more for next season, intends to expand Playboy's TV and movie operations. He is talking about buying a Hollywood studio...
...picketed Nikodim while he was delivering a sermon at Tulsa's First Christian Church. Another veteran anti-Red, the Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, a Rumanian Lutheran pastor who spent 18 years in Communist prisons, interrupted a World Council press conference. When the organization's general secretary, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, tried to still him, Wurmbrand shouted: "Call the police if you like; the Communists called the police against...
MORE THAN half a decade before Rachel Carson published The Silent Spring, a Princeton undergraduate named Ralph Nader successfully persuaded the university to stop spraying its trees with insecticides toxic to song birds. Within the same years, an article by Nader appeared in the Princeton paper criticizing American automobiles as death-traps. Later, of course, Nader wrote Unsafe At Any Speed. Anticipating issues and revealing hidden crises is hardly new to Nader. But the report on the Federal Trade Commission published this January by seven law students working with Nader may be his most politically potent project...