Word: concord
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gardner C. Taylor, 60, Concord Baptist Church of Christ, Brooklyn, N.Y. "He has a voice that sounds like God," an admiring fellow preacher says of Taylor. To anyone who has listened to a Taylor sermon, the judgment does not seem far off target. Taylor's voice is deep and apparently inexhaustible. Working variations on a biblical theme ("Create in me a clean heart, O God"), he artfully circles around his subject, now lulling the listeners into serenity, now rising to majestic sincerity in stately cadences that overwhelm as much with their sound as with their meaning. Taylor says that...
...John Neuhaus marvels at Taylor's way of playing with a single word: "He whispers it and then he shouts it; he pats, pinches and probes it," each new sentence adding a shade of meaning. Taylor, a veteran community activist and a nationally influential churchman, has been at Concord Baptist for 31 years. He is widely regarded, with justice, as the dean of the nation's black preachers...
...rested its survival strategy on what Chairman Gerald Meyers calls a "three-legged stool" of small cars, Jeeps and steady Government contracts for postal vehicles and military tactical trucks. Since 1974, AMC's line-up of cars has shrunk from six to three: Concord, Spirit and Pacer. While analysts say that they are not making money, the high-profit Jeep continues to rake it in. There was some sales softness earlier in the year because of its fuel thirst, but the Jeep rebounded strongly in September and October...
...putting a Concord compact body on a four-wheel Jeep-like drive train, the company has produced a new car that gets about 16 m.p.g. and sells for some $7,000. Name: the Eagle. It rides easily, stops quickly on icy roads, and is designed for doctors, firemen, people who drive snowplows and others in rough climes. AMC planned to build 50,000 in this model year, but reception has been so strong that there is talk of aiming toward...
Baker continued to Concord, N.H. and to Maine, where today he will woo 1500 Maine Republican leaders scheduled to conduct a straw poll