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Consensus of the House. In order to head off Louttit's formal presentation of the heresy charge, Presiding Bishop John T. Hines had named an ad hoc committee to prepare a general statement that would reflect the consensus of the house. The committee was headed by the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, 74, the retired Bishop of Washington who, in 1946, ordained Pike to the priesthood. Dun's committee proposed rebuking Pike instead of trying him. The debate on its recommendation became in effect a trial by rhetoric-not so much of Pike as of the church itself...
...importance of preserving an excellent community action project far outweighs minor organizational faults or the convenience of pleasing political allies. The Administration should take the advice of a large number of clergymen and civil rights lawyers who have formed an ad hoc pressure group to support CDGM and restore the project the funds it deserves...
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...federal school-lunch program. But the chief attention getters are the proliferating newspaper advertisements on such issues as nuclear disarmament, civil rights and Viet Nam. The ads, bearing massed names in eye-straining type, are sponsored by organizations that seem almost ritualistically to include the tag ad hoc in their titles, such as the Ad Hoc Committee of Veterans for Peace in Viet Nam. Many of them are prepared by advertising-agency volunteers, notably those from Doyle Dane Bernbach, who helped develop the disarmament ads sponsored by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE...
Craig also said that "there was a good possibility" that an ad hoc student-faculty committee would be created this fall to discuss the University's compliance with Selective Service requests for student rankings. This committee would report to the Committee on Educational Policy, which in turn would make a policy recommendation to the full Faculty...