Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other Democratic Party workers are trying to put on the pressure. A New York-based group called Citizens for Kennedy-Fulbright released a letter, signed by 50 former Democratic Convention delegates, asking the President not to seek re-election because of antiwar sentiment within the party. Washington Attorney Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, announced that he is starting a personal campaign aimed not at "dumping Johnson" but at writing a "peace plank" into the 1968 Democratic platform...
Mindful of McKinley's menace, Expedition Leader Joseph F. Wilcox, 24, encamped his dozen climbers 18,000 ft. high between McKinley's north and south peaks. After Wilcox and his assault team scaled the peak, he set out with four weary companions on the long trek down. Seven others, including the expedition's strongest mountaineers, opted to assault the pinnacle...
...Died. Joseph Leon Cardinal Cardijn, 84, "the workers' cardinal," the son of a Brussels concierge, who in 1912, to stir up religious interest in the industrial slums, started organizing cell-like groups of young adults, thereafter for five decades stumped the world marshaling 14-to-30-year-olds into the Jeunesse Ouvriere Chretienne (Young Christian Workers), a left-of-center self-help movement that today counts 2,000,000 members in 69 countries; of a heart attack; in Louvain, Belgium...
...odds with conventional Mormon opinion. The paper got a lot of criticism when it ran a story about Interior Secretary Stewart Udall's criticism of the church position that Negroes are the descendants of Cain and hence ineligible for the priesthood. Himself a Mormon, Udall argued that Founder Joseph Smith held no such view. According to Udall, it was promulgated at a later date when the church "settled for a compromise with its own ideals...
Clinical Detachment. Such a man naturally attracted many biographers-ten in all-and played dashing walk-on parts in innumerable histories and memoirs. His eleventh, Fawn M. Brodie, has shown her skill before (Reconstructionist Thaddeus Stevens, Mormon Joseph Smith). She intrepidly explores the intrepid explorer, and in Burton the mystery is darker than any continent. He is a hard chap to map. His source may lie in the Peaks of Paranoia or the Pools of Narcissus. It is anybody's guess...