Word: carsons
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Steve McQueen and Barbra Streisand were there, as were Eugene Carson Blake, former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein. So were ten Democratic Senators and twelve black members of the House of Representatives, as well as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and (would you believe?) Joe Namath...
...judge's decision is largely the result of a one-woman campaign launched by Lettie Gay Carson, a onetime newspaper reporter who has ridden the Harlem Valley line of the Penn
...president of a coalition of farmers, businessmen and passengers, Mrs. Carson enlisted legal aid from the New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council. Lawyers William Hoppen and Thomas Creel argued that removing the train service would increase air pollution by forcing a shift to truck traffic and also have other results that should be considered as "environmental damage." Among them...
...behaves like a Civil War surgeon," says Mrs. Carson. "It tries to cure every ailment by amputation." If the new ruling is upheld in higher courts, the ICC may well have to try other remedies-ranging from huge federal subsidies to outright nationalization -to cure the nation's ailing railroads...
...true. Activism is in retreat within America's "name brand" churches [May 28]. Denominations are retrenching. But to interpret the defeat of Eugene Carson Blake for Moderator of the United Presbyterian General Assembly as a repudiation of the '60s is to misunderstand. That same assembly deplored the continued bombing of Cambodia and Laos, supported the boycott of lettuce and grapes, and returned the U.P. Church to the Consultation on Church Union. Marks of an era not wholly spurned...