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...racial outbreaks, they succeeded in scrapping the archaic and arrogant commission form of government that provided his raw power. The mayor and city council who replaced the three commissioners (including Connor) have been more responsive and progressive. Mayor David J. Vann, 48, is a hearty lawyer and Methodist Sunday-school teacher who won the job last November in a campaign without any racial issues. The nine-member city council includes three blacks...
...pews had been pushed aside to make room for the 90 or so chairs and music stands. Microphones arched overhead on long, angled booms. It was not the usual look of the West Ham Central Mission, a turn-of-the-century Methodist church in London's East End, but it has excellent acoustics and is sometimes used for recording sessions. Concertmaster Sidney Sax gave the signal for the orchestra to tune up. Then, from a double door, the frail, stooped figure began a slow walk to the podium, his right hand gripping a sturdy cane, his left...
...libraries and other institutions have signed up. If the project survives, it could turn around the sagging enrollments suffered over the last decade by many of the nation's Sunday schools and synagogue classes. Because of TV, observes Virginia Saari, the director of education for the First United Methodist Church in Lakeland, Fla., "children are visually minded now. We have to appeal to them through their eyes if we want them to get the Bible...
...torture subculture has its own rules and rituals, which sometimes parody the daily routine of infinitely less brutal professions. "It was just sort of a job to them," says former Methodist Missionary Fred Morris, who was tortured for 17 days in Recife, Brazil, in 1974. "These people had 9-to-5 jobs, except that their business was to torture for a living." There are often specific times of the night or day when victims are picked up by their torturer-interrogators. The prisoner is usually hooded or blindfolded. Sessions often begin quietly; physical torture starts only after the interrogator...
...making many of her dreams come true," said Larry C. Flynt, 33, self-promoting publisher of the trashy skin mag Hustler, as he announced that he will be married in a Methodist church next month to Althea Leasure, 22, who was indicted with Flynt earlier this year on charges of obscenity and engaging in organized crime. The bride, who is the associate publisher of Hustler, will wear an ivory dress and veil, and her bridesmaids will be in red. The couple will live in a $375,000 Tudor mansion in Bexley, Ohio, a staid suburb of Columbus, where the good...