Word: missouri
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Outwardly, the tailored lawns and brown Gothic buildings of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis give every evidence of serenity. The very name of the school-the 135-year-old academic font of the 2.8 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod-is Latin for "harmony." Last week, however, Concordia, the largest Lutheran seminary in the world (690 students), was closed down by a student and faculty boycott. The reason: Concordia's president, the Rev. John H. Tietjen, 45, had been ousted on charges amounting to heresy...
...second highest office in the land, and only three-all liberal Democrats-had cried nay. Maine's William Hathaway felt that the confirmation should be held up until the question of President Nixon's impeachment was resolved, and both Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson and Missouri's Thomas Eagleton felt that Ford was incapable of providing what Nelson called "the kind of inspirational leadership this nation will need should he succeed to the presidency...
Died. Charles Evans Whittaker, 72, a former Supreme Court Justice; of a ruptured aorta; in Kansas City, Mo. A high school dropout who returned to school to study law, Whittaker rose to prominence as a Missouri trial lawyer and was appointed to the high court by Eisenhower in 1957. A judicial conservative, Whittaker consistently held claims of individual liberty to be outweighed by the needs of government, cast the deciding vote in 40 cases that ruled against an extension of civil rights and upheld actions against the Communist Party and alleged members. He resigned from the court...
Wednesday AP&L took about 75 Arkansas officials, ACORN members and investigators from the Investor Responsibility Research Center--which is looking into the plant at Harvard's request--on a tour of two power plants in Kentucky and Missouri...
...people know it. I can't figure out how he came so close to getting elected in 1960." Later Truman noted: "They say Nixon has changed, but they'll have to prove it to me. Where that fella is concerned, you might say I'm from Missouri...