Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest laws," says Edie Steinmetz, owner of the Doves of Happiness Wedding Chapel in Inglewood, a leader in the state's $700,000-a-year secret-marriage industry. "It allows a lot of people to get married who otherwise would not be able to"-including the already married...
...Morey, owner of the Lafayette Wedding Chapel in Long Beach, shrugs off the bigamy problem and insists: "This is a very moral enterprise. We're trying to get the largest number of people living together to come in and get married legally." Chapel owners are legally authorized to preside at weddings as long as they have some sort of ministerial certificate, which in California is almost as easy to get as a secret wedding. Last year Dr. Morey, who says he is a minister, got 1,500 couples to come in and marry, at $20 per ceremony...
...blood test, some state officials are concerned about increases in the incidence of venereal disease and rubella during pregnancies. State Assemblyman Robert Burke of Huntington Beach introduced a bill last spring that would require a blood test and a three-day waiting period for all marriages, but the wedding chapels lobbied hard against the bill and killed it in committee. "Some of our customers may be frightened to death of needles," explains Steinmetz. Then, too, the tests would add to the cost of secret weddings, which usually run from $20 to $50 for a simple ceremony. Chapel operators also feared...
...broke into a grin again, recalling his high school dreams of a show business career. Franken and Davis first began writing together at Blake, a Minnesota country-day prep school, not for comedy skits or plays, but for morning chapel announcements. Although they didn't "hang out around the school theater," Franken said, they wrote together whenever they could gather up enough energy to put on a show. When Franken graduated from high school in 1969, he had Physics in mind for a concentration--"I was good at math and all that stuff"--but show business dreams were far from...
...scene has also changed drastically. The student body is no longer a community, but "an unsorted collection of groups and individuals." With the "radical decline" in chapel attendance at seminaries, students only rarely worship together. "Manners," says the report, "are more relaxed, sex freer, and acquaintance with drugs often more than theoretical...