Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Learning from failure Like many a city congregation, New York's interdenominational Riverside Church, where Harry Emerson Fosdick once held forth, has suffered a slow membership decline, from 3,300 to 2,600 over the past decade. To turn things around, the church has hired flamboyant Presbyterian William Sloane Coffin, 53, who during 17 years as chaplain of Yale led many civil rights and antiwar rallies and twice went to jail...
...maritime unions are small-a total membership of 76,000-but their political puissance rivals the billow of a spinnaker in a full wind. One reason: knowing that the U.S. shipping industry survives largely by Government subsidy, the unions have been willing to contribute to the campaigns of friendly politicians. One is President Carter, whose support of the unions is now subjecting him to angry charges of "political payoff' by Republicans brandishing Administration memos apparently slipped to them by somebody inside the White House...
...broke in on tiny, rural dirt tracks in the Deep South, getting his first opportunities to race only because promoters thought crowds might be interested in seeing a Negro crash and burn. He could expect no mercy from the white stock-car drivers, very few of whom carried N.A.A.C.P. membership cards in their wal lets. The worst Robinson could expect from his prejudiced competitors was something like a spike wound; the men Scott was running against had, at every race, the means to kill him and in all like lihood get away with it. Moreover, as a black he could...
...membership of the National Junior Classical League at Florida State University in Tallahassee last week, the Latin fest was like nectar to the gods. Classical scholars all, they had assembled from as far away as Alaska and Hawaii to compete in the Olympic Games of Latin Students, the 24th national J.C.L. competition. An elite group, 95% college bound, the delegates were variously attracted by sheer love of the classics, as well as affection for historic trivia and the fascination of what is difficult. Says Mike LaComb, 19, a St. Lawrence University freshman: "There's a thrill to the exacting...
...full Gospel Christian" must be "baptized in the Holy Spirit." From this followed such gifts as glossolalia, faith healing and prophecy. Parham encountered resistance from local church leaders and eventually moved off to Texas, where his Pentecostal churches found their roots among the South's rural poor (current membership: about 4 million...