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...Bear" Bryant and Babe Parilli. 2. Dick Kazmaier. 3. Howard "Hopalong" Cassady or Bob Ferguson. 4. Henry "Red" Sanders. 5. "The Chinese Bandits." 6. Bill Dyas. 7. Southern Methodist, 32-28. 8. Duke Carlisle or Scott Appleton. 9. Rod Sherman. 10. M.S.U.-Regis Cavender or N.D.-Bob Gladiaux. The picture is of Calvin Hill...
...United Methodist Church, three smaller Black Methodist churches, the United and Southern Presbyterian churches, the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ...
...other local churches of mainstream Protestant denominations have become involved in the homosexual ministry. Several liberal "straight" churches in San Francisco have made a point of offering a haven to homosexuals since 1964. One of them, Glide Memorial Methodist Church, willingly blesses "pledges of commitment" between homosexuals. A California United Church of Christ minister, Tom Maurer, 53, has recently announced, without reprisal, that he is a homosexual; a seminarian in the same denomination who publicly avowed his homosexuality is expected to be ordained next fall. On the other hand, the Rev. Gene Leggett, 36, was recently suspended by Texas Methodists...
...illegal by a federal court; they were ordered expunged from the public record, although 25 indictments against students and faculty members were allowed to stand. Federal officials and a presidential commission studied the shootings, but withheld a decision. Last week the Board of Christian Social Concerns of the United Methodist Church, the nation's second largest Protestant denomination, sought to reopen the case. The board, the activist arm of the relatively conservative church, issued a report suggesting that at least some of the Guardsmen on the Kent State campus had decided in advance to fire on the students...
...moderates say that Methodist membership losses (300,000 in the past three years) stem from disillusionment with the liberal program. Some who might have left are now moving in the Good News direction; about 1,800 of them gathered at a meeting in Cincinnati earlier this month. The magazine itself now commands a readership of 5,000 among the nation's 35,000 Methodist clergymen...