Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though, attention is focused on current troubles rather than on latent-and later-possibilities. Millions of families cannot afford loans for new homes or automobiles. Thousands of small businesses are going bankrupt. Says Dwayne Walls, 49, a home remodeler in Chapel Hill, N.C., who is stuck with ten unsold houses because of towering mortgage rates: "I really don't see any end to 20% money. The bankers just keep telling me to hang on, but I'm just one little itty-bitty speck in this whole thing. I don't understand what's going...
...serving a life sentence for her role in the 1969 slayings of Actress Sharon Tate and seven others; and Donald Lee Leisure, 52, self-proclaimed Texas millionaire whom she met while hitchhiking in California in 1965; she for the first time (Laisure claims 35 previous marriages); in the chapel of the California Institute for Women in Frontera, Calif...
...Denver Catholics was Mount Olivet Cemetery. But as maintenance costs soared and Catholics began to bury their dead elsewhere, the archdiocese came to fear that Mount Olivet would no longer be able to make ends meet. To help bolster revenues, the archdiocese decided last spring to convert a chapel on cemetery grounds into a mortuary and offer burial services at lower prices than private establishments. The new tab for an average Mount Olivet funeral comes to $1,100 compared with $2,500 elsewhere. That includes coffin, the use of two limousines, death notices in two Denver dailies and even...
...gathered in Nairobi last week for the fourth General Assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches were shunted away from the organization's fancy new headquarters on Waiyaki Way. Instead, they met in an unpretentious teachers' college outside the Kenyan capital. A conference hall and chapel, intended to serve as an imposing centerpiece for Africa's largest ecumenical body, is still unfinished for lack of funds...
...normally accorded only to the Queen. But during the course of the two-week Mediterranean honeymoon cruise, Prince Charles and Lady Diana will be coddled and comforted by every other amenity that the glorious ship has to offer. A seagoing resort, the Britannia is outfitted with swimming pool, ballroom, chapel, theater, and a dining room that seats 40. There is a crack crew of 254 Royal Navy sailors (two-thirds of whom sign on for their entire service careers) and 22 officers, including a rear admiral at the helm. In deference to their royal - and romantic - passengers, orders...