Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school student in Oregon, his father told him: "Make your life count for the most." For Poling that meant becoming an ordained minister. In 1912 he was the Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of Ohio (he lost, but remains an unwavering teetotaler). A Dutch Reformed clergyman, he has served at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church, first as pastor and, since 1960, as minister emeritus. For the past 37 years, he has been editor of the Christian Herald, pulling it out of financial shambles, and building up its circulation...
...hours exchanged rifle and submachine-gun fire with police. That it ended when it did was due to the courage of Monsignor Andrew Kennedy, 50, U.S.-born Vicar-General of La Paz. "Students!" the police shouted. "Stop firing! Listen to Monsignor Kennedy!" With two doctors, the stubby, grey-haired clergyman marched through the firing line and into the university. There he found 16 wounded, one dead. Finally, the students laid down their arms and were prodded off to jail...
...hearing that "ministers and priests should stick to saving souls and leave politics alone" from people who certainly know nothing about saving souls and probably little about politics and who, after the smoke clears, are often the first to ask why the church didn't do something! Any clergyman will tell you that he is in the most damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't calling in the world...
Group Wisdom. Under Kubie's plan, which he reports is being tried by a growing number of separated and divorced couples, the parents agree privately to share the child, then select an impartial committee composed of a pediatrician, a child psychiatrist, an educator and a lawyer or clergyman. The committee arbitrates any disagreements the parents could not work out themselves. The parents also appoint a separate "adult ally," another child specialist, with the job of winning the child's confidence and reporting to the committee on problems that the boy or girl might not confess to either mother...
...right-wing," anti-ecumenical Protestant clergyman, I tried to read your article on Richard Cardinal Gushing [Aug. 21] with proper disgust, but nostalgia got the best of me. Any Bostonian worth his salt cod has to be proud of this grand old man and his antics. Like our glorious Tea Party, he will always be part of my Boston. (THE REV.) R. W. NICKERSON Lisbon...