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Historic Creeds. In fact, however, the turndown of COCU was a textbook example of Protestant church democracy. Last fall a group of about 100 conservative ministers and laymen began meeting monthly in the Presbyterian headquarters city of Philadelphia to discuss denominational issues. In April they drafted an anti-COCU motion arguing, among other things, that the union plan was trying to meld "irreconcilable viewpoints" among the participating churches and was threatening the self-determination of local congregations. One obvious problem: some of the churches adhere to historic creeds specifying their beliefs; others...
...motion, which sailed through the Philadelphia Presbytery, had asked only that the church reject COCU's current first-draft plan of union. But at Denver the assembly's grass-roots Bills and Overtures Committee strengthened the motion to provide for a complete pullout. The approval was all the more striking because in other respects the assembly was far from conservative; it approved a tough antiwar resolution and passed an approval of abortion-on-de-mand that goes well beyond traditional Presbyterian stands...
...have been submitted to managements so far this year, but hardly any have polled the 3% of proxy votes necessary to merit revival at next year's meeting. A proposal that Warner-Lambert study the effect of its advertising on drug abuse won 3.2% of the votes. A motion to include women, employees, consumers and blacks on boards of directors earned 3.9% at AT&T and 4.2% at Chrysler. Also at Chrysler, a resolution for disclosure of information on safety, pollution and minority hiring polled 4.5%. At other annual meetings, managements disposed of such affronts with ease, like Gulf...
...department, too, supported such a change in principle but passed a motion allowing incorporation of these fields in the exam only "after further experience has been gained" with them...
Graham then introduced two resolutions which failed by the same 7-2 margin. Owens being her only supporter. The first would have offered the job of City Manager to James Threatt, administrator of the Model Cities program in Kansas City, Mo. The second motion urged the dismissal of Corcoran even though his successor has not been selected...