Word: missouri
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...over. At last, after so many months of poisonous suspicion, a kind of undeclared civil war that finally engaged all three branches of the American Government, the ordeal had ended. As the Spirit of 76 in one last errand arced across central Missouri carrying Richard Nixon to his retirement, Gerald Rudolph Ford stood in the East Room of the White House, placed his hand upon his eldest son's Bible, and repeated the presidential oath "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." By the time the 37th President of the U.S. arrived at the Pacific...
Controlled Attack. Whether delivered with the sardonic light touch of Missouri's William Hungate, the biting thrusts of Ohio's John Seiberling or the measured coolness of Maryland's Paul Sarbanes, the attack on Nixon's actions was controlled, yet incisive. When such troubled Republicans as Maine's semi-lyrical Cohen, Maryland's hard-hitting Hogan and the earnest McClory joined the assault, the impact was powerful...
...Missouri's Hungate stressed that the article was based on a pattern of presidential misconduct rather than on isolated acts. Conceding that "men are human; humans are frail," he said that "a consistent disregard of the law" was involved. Typically, Hungate gave a homespun example of the difference: "If a man is driving in his car and he crosses the center line, that is not grounds for a whole lot of punishment ... but if he crosses the center line 15 times every mile he drives or if he insists on straddling the center line all the time, then...
Women still cannot legally become priests in the U.S. Episcopal Church.* Like other churches that do not ordain women-Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Missouri Synod Lutheran-the Episcopal Church has refused to do so basically because Jesus and all of his apostles were men. Most other U.S. Protestant bodies reject that reasoning and ordain women...
...diocesan standing committee of clergy and laity. Moreover, the quartet of bishops who ordained them lacked authority on other grounds as well. The Rt. Rev. Robert L. De Witt, 58, the resigned Bishop of Pennsylvania; the Rt. Rev. Edward Randolph Welles II, 67, the retired Bishop of West Missouri; and the Rt. Rev. Daniel Corrigan, 73, the retired bishop who had headed domestic missions, all apparently ignored a canon that forbids retired bishops to perform "episcopal acts" unless so requested by the local bishop. There was no such request. The fourth participant, the Rt. Rev. José Antonio Ramos...