Word: children
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Edward J. Sponga, 50, was, in effect, the Jesuit equivalent of a bishop. Last week Father Sponga quietly abandoned his vow of celibacy to marry Mary Ellen Barrett, 33, a nurse at a Roman Catholic hospital in the Philadelphia suburb of Darby, Pa., and the divorced mother of three children. In so doing, he became the highest ranking ecclesiastic of the 350 or so priests who have left the Catholic Church in the U.S. within the last two years in order...
Sponga first met Mrs. Barrett several years ago, when she came to him for spiritual counseling. She was divorced from her husband last February and was granted custody of the children. Although automatically excommunicated for marrying, he insists that he is "still Catholic" in outlook and will continue to attend Mass. "I had to make a decision between those values I had lived as a priest and new values," he says. "It was a question, basically, , of what I wanted as a person. It's not that I reject the values of the priest hood." Nor does he reject...
Also up in the air about taxes last week were Britain's legions of mini-skirted mods. British sales taxes include a 121% levy on purchases of adult clothing, but the regulations exempt children's wear. And the thigh-high miniskirts fall short of the maxi 24-in. waist-to-hem length that is bureaucratically considered the beginning of adult size. So up to now the mods have had to pay no taxes when they bought skirts. Aware that it is thus losing pounds and pounds of tax money, the government last week was searching...
...judge could refuse to accept any jury verdict he did not like, no matter what the evidence. A new trial was then held, with a larger jury. If the new jury agreed with the judge, the original jurors could '"themselves be imprisoned and their wives and children thrust out of doors." That highhanded custom ended in 1670, when Edward Bushell and his fellow London jurors stubbornly refused to find Quakers William Penn and William Mead guilty of preaching to an unlawful assembly. The jurors were jailed, but at their subsequent trial they established the right to differ with...
...gold-silver currency standard (it was not adopted), and the hawking of a patent disinfectant called Electrozone. If his promotion was good, his financing was inadequate, and if both were good, someone cheated him out of his commission. He borrowed from his brothers, his friends, their friends and his children, and lectured his nephew Winston on politics and the art of prose composition...