Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hanoi released Gartley, who was shot down, Aug. 17, 1968, Air Force Major Edward Elias, a prisoner since April 20, 1972, and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Norris Charles, a captive since Dec. 30, 1971. All three were placed in the custody of Mrs. Weiss and Antiwar Activists David Dellinger, Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. and Princeton International Law Professor Richard Falk. Charles' wife Olga and Mrs. Gartley were also part of the American escort. Even though they were released from prison, the flyers were not immediately allowed to leave Hanoi; instead they spent eight days relaxing, shopping and touring...
...divorces for every 1,000 marriages, it is little wonder that children do not necessarily heed their parents' advice or consider marriage their ultimate goal. "There's a healthy disrespect for the façade of respectability behind which Albee-like emotional torrents roll on," says Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin...
...also the first to place ice machines and soft-drink machines in hallways, thus sparing the traveler the cost of room service. Today every Holiday Inn has a local doctor and dentist on call to treat guests at almost any hour. The chain even employs a full-time chaplain, the Rev. W.A. ("Dub") Nance, a Methodist. Among other things, he oversees a nationwide network of clergymen who volunteer spiritual counseling for guests at 820 inns; this group claims to have talked about 235 people out of committing suicide...
...more sensational courts-martial on record, Navy Chaplain Andrew Jensen, a Baptist minister, went on trial for conduct unbecoming an officer, accused of adultery by two women who claimed they had sexual relations with him (TIME, April 3). Last week he was acquitted at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla. Prosecutor Ralph Levy had argued that the two Navy wives would never have risked the publicity if their charges were false. "This is too high a price to pay for anything but the truth," he told the court...
Commander Jensen, 43, denied having affairs with the women, and his attorney claimed that they were "sick and conspiring." When the verdict of not guilty was announced, Jensen's wife Kathleen, 43, embraced him and expressed her relief: "Thank the Lord." The chaplain was surrounded and congratulated by other wives at the base who had raised $15,000 for his defense...