Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of the articles are as sweeping as those of the 1461 synod, which was directed at the tightening up of the laxities of Renaissance Rome, and established the Easter duties of confession and Communion, set up temporal penalties for blasphemy, forbade gambling, fortunetelling, sorcery, secret marriage, marriage with blood relatives, marriage in Lent and Advent, ordered parents to keep infants under one year in cribs and ordered priests to eschew fancy hairdos. For the most part the new constitutions restate and re-emphasize existing provisions of canon law, apply old disciplines to new situations. Items...
...Biblical version of Disneyland that should render much coin unto Caesar. Built in the shape of a heart ("symbolic of God's love") and subdivided into six freewheeling reproductions of the Garden of Eden, Rome, Babylon, Israel, Egypt and Ur, the amusement park is scheduled to open Easter Sunday 1961, when tens of thousands can be expected to make the 4O-mile, eight-cylinder pilgrimage from Los Angeles to the site at Cucamonga...
...tradition-loving Maine, Democratic Governor Clinton Amos Clauson lived a notably unorthodox political life. To begin with, he was not a Down-Easter at all; he came east from Iowa as a young man, set up practice as a chiropractor in Waterville, later prospered as a fuel-oil dealer, and was elected Waterville's mayor in 1956. Then, as a conservative Demo crat, he skyrocketed out of comparative obscurity in 1958 to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomination away from the candidate of the Democratic liberals, led by Maine's popular Governor Ed Muskie (now U.S. Senator). Clauson...