Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moderate group called "Disciples Concerned" is earning notice. In the mighty 10,700,000-member United Methodist Church, the most successful opposition comes from a movement known as the "Good News" Methodists, named after a quarterly magazine published by the Rev. Charles Keysor of Grace Methodist Church in Elgin, III. Keysor emphasizes the importance of preaching the Gospel to modern man and champions a return to enlightened evangelism coupled with effective social action. Liberals, claim Keysor and his associates, wrongly replace evangelism with social action, while traditional conservatives neglect social action...
Every midnight for the past seven months, the Elgin Theater in New York City's Chelsea district has presented a screening of an exceedingly curious and especially arresting film called El Topo (The Mole). An allegorical western made in Mexico by a Chilean-Russian stage director named Alexandro Jodorowsky, El Topo has not been shown at all outside Manhattan; reviews, aside from the underground press, have been few and mostly negative. Nonetheless, the film has been kept alive by word of mouth spread by a burgeoning band of fierce partisans. Dennis Hopper had it screened at his home...
...smaller number of big companies have either moved to New York or announced their intention to do so, including Elgin Industries, U.M.C. Inc., Atlantic Richfield and Norton Simon Inc. The traffic in companies, though not in overall employment, is mostly outbound. One reason is New York's living costs, which are 9% higher than Chicago's, 18% more than Denver's and 26% steeper than Houston's. But says Leonard Yaseen, chairman of Fantus & Co., a corporate site-seeking adviser, "I don't think economics has much to do with it. The intangibles have...
...noticed an American magazine advertisement that he felt insulted the Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata. Over a faded photograph of Zapata, the ad recounted a story of how he threatened to execute any railroad conductor or engineer who thought to keep Zapata's guerrillas from stealing his regulation Elgin watch by wearing a cheaper variety on his wrist. "It's a good thing Zapata's gone," the ad concluded. "He'd be stealing Elgins as fast as we could make them." For $1, a reader of the advertisement might write in for a "Handsome Zapata poster...
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