Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thousands of truckers each year drop in for services that begin with a safety lecture, often featuring state highway patrol movies of bloody and fatal accidents. The films serve a dual purpose: a caution against careless driving and a reminder of impending eternity. At a truck terminal in Dallas, Chaplain Mahlon Martin followed a film by giving the assembled drivers a typical Transport for Christ pitch: "People who say that one of these days they'll get it straightened out with the Lord might find that tomorrow is too late." Besides regular services, the two-man chapel crews also...
Transport for Christ-and its blend of safety and salvation-was a trucker's idea. It was founded by a Canadian, James W. ("Chaplain Jim") Keys, now 43. Keys, who had driven out of Toronto from the age of 13, was a veteran of a trucker's pleasures. "I wasn't such a great drinker," he says, "but women were a source of evil for me." He had also narrowly escaped death from a flash fire while fueling trucks. "At the ripe old age of 20, I was coming apart." A chance visit to a Toronto church...
...McCarthy that helped sink the Wisconsin Senator's career. More recently, St. Clair won a pioneering case in 1967 upholding the constitutionality of a Massachusetts law that categorizes marijuana as a narcotic drug and thus outlaws its possession and sale. A year later he successfully defended Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. during his celebrated trial in Boston on charges of conspiracy to encourage draft evasion...
...such moments Hasek's good soldier seems like the martyr in his drunken chaplain's painting...
PEOPLE MAY FIND it surprising to hear Father Louis Gigante say that there is no Mafia. Gigante, chaplain of the Italian American Civil Rights League, New York City councilman, and a fellow at the Institute of Politics this week, will explain this view at several places around Harvard...