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...tallies read off odometers, the West would win the U.S. popularity contest in a landslide. The 1970 census figures show that the population of mountain and Pacific states has increased by 24.1 % since 1960. v. an increase on the other side of the Great Divide of only 11%. Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, young man," is still being heeded by young and old alike, in spite of the fact that the "frontier" is now posted at intervals with taco and fried-chicken stands. Ecologists point out that the very nature of the West-little water and enormous stretches...
Ballots were mailed to all class members before Christmas. Sidney F. Greeley Jr., chairman of the nominating committee, said last night that 38 per cent of the class voted...
...Greeley insisted that Knowles's election was not a repudiation of Kleindienst's politics. "I don't think there's anything political in the thing at all," he said. Kleindienst managed the 1964 presidential campaign of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and engineered last year's mass arrests of demonstrators in Washington during the "Mayday" protests...
...Greeley also said that Kleindienst wasn't as well known as Knowles when the balloting was conducted. He said this was probably a more important factor in the voting than any political considerations...
Another serious problem for the priesthood-far more so than priestly resignations-is the decline in vocations, Greeley emphasized. He suggested a separate church commission to explore the problem. In the past, many vocations were born of the personal enthusiasm that priests were able to convey to younger men. Now, though many priests still seem comparatively content, they are reluctant to recommend the priesthood so long as the vocation has such an "uncertain future...