Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Churches of Christ has joined sociologists and doctors in urging that the legal drinking age-21 in most states-be dropped to 18, on the grounds that it is unrealistic and in any event unenforceable. Publications of the Methodists, who long practiced or avowed total abstinence, now freely discuss such subjects as appropriate and inappropriate drinking-and appropriate and inappropriate abstinence. Welcoming 1968 with more drinking but less drunkenness, the U.S. stands established as a moderate drinking society, in which social custom is beginning to serve as a far better control over the drinking habit than either statutes or disapproval...
Listening to one of today's linemen discuss his duties is a little like listening to a physicist describe some new process for detecting subatomic particles. "Our defense basically revolves around the concept of playing keys," says Tackle Henry Jordan, who together with Ends Willie Davis and Lionel Aldridge and Tackle Ron Kostelnik forms the front four of the Green Bay Packers. "We move with them all the time. On a trap play, for example, Aldridge's opposing tackle will fake a pass block by going for our middle linebacker. Now I've moved with...
...Council will discuss the approval of all, or part, of RUS at its meeting on Jan. 8. The Trustees are not scheduled to meet until March...
Provincial Candidates. Elsewhere, prospective bishops are chosen by the hierarchy in proceedings whose secrecy would do credit to the CIA. Once every two years, the bishops of a province-a group of dioceses headed by an archbishop-meet to discuss the qualifications of priests who should be considered for advancement. The names of the top candidates are submitted to the Vatican's apostolic delegate or papal nuncio, who then passes them on to Rome's Sacred Consistorial Congregation after making his own investigation of their qualities. To fill smaller sees, the Pope usually accepts one of the province...
...letter led to several meetings between the city and the two institutions to discuss ways of meeting Cambridge's snowballing needs. Three alternatives emerged. The city could raise the tax rate; it could develop more effective ways of using federal programs; or it could devise some scheme to enable various groups to exploit development opportunities -- a suggestion which had the added attractiveness of increasing the city's tax base. The decision was not very difficult. Raising taxes was politically unwise, and probably the weakest solution in any case. Alternatives two and three remained...