Word: membership
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...judge, of course, is Attorney General-designate Griffin Bell. The cause of Tarver's outrage was the coast-to-coast outcry over the fact that Bell and two other top-level Jimmy Carter appointees belong to Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club, which bars membership to blacks and Jews (the other appointees: Atlanta Banker Bert Lance, Carter's proposed budget director, and Houston Businessman Charles Duncan Jr., a former Atlanta resident who was nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense). Bell and Lance have promised to resign, but at week's end Duncan had not yet decided what...
Some view the consideration of McCree, who is black, as a move by Carter to placate liberal and minority criticism of Attorney General designate Griffin Bell. Bell's membership in white-restricted clubs drew protests from civil rights advocates...
...Membership in the Institute will be open to any retired person who has "shown a commitment to learning" during his career, Shinagel said. No prior association with Harvard is required...
...newsmen's questions after his nomination. He insisted that when he endorsed Carswell, he was not aware that Carswell had once made a strongly pro-segregationist speech. Yet the speech was widely reported at the time, as he later conceded. He also waffled when questioned about his membership in two Atlanta clubs-the Capital City Club and the Piedmont Driving Club-that have not admitted blacks or Jews as members. Bell announced that he would quit the clubs only after Carter had made it clear that he hoped Bell would do so. (Budget Director-designate Bert Lance and Charles...
...family of Jesus Christ is incomplete so long as one of us is missing. Won't you please join us?" Responding to this half-page newspaper ad and similar appeals, 12,000 Roman Catholics in the Memphis area-one-fourth of the local diocese's membership-turned out at the city's Mid-South Coliseum. They created a rare Sunday afternoon traffic jam that delayed the rites for a half-hour. The event, unprecedented in U.S. Catholicism, was a "Day of Reconciliation." It offered sacramental absolution without individual confession to all participants, both practicing Catholics and those...