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...society during the '40s reminded me of my introduction to black people. I grew up in rural South Dakota, where blacks were seldom seen. Then I joined the Navy. I knew of no reason not to sit by a black man on a city bus in Norfolk, Va. Consequently I was astounded when the black passengers screamed "White trash!" and "Move up where you belong!" On the other hand, the whites seemed content with casting hateful looks in my direction...
...most part, the coast-to-coast celebration was an outpouring of innocent joy. Said Lois Layton, who drove from Norfolk, Va., to stand in a crowd of some 400,000 watching the motorcade that took the freed hostages to President Ronald Reagan's welcoming ceremony at the White House: "It's like a release to me. I couldn't go to Iran and fight, but I can come here and scream." Said Norma Rose of Silver Spring, Md.: "I felt the suffering. Now, I feel part of the miracle of their freedom. It's what...
Whitehead said that Robert Banks, first assistant district attorney from Norfolk County, would serve as special prosecutor in the case...
...overlapping words convey an impression of unity and division. They were spoken last Sunday, during the 74th annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, as they are almost every week, at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Norfolk, Va. It is the only U.S. congregation officially listed as both a Roman Catholic and Episcopal church. Anglicanism kept a Catholic style of worship when it broke with Rome in the 16th century. Now, except for using separate altars at the consecration, parishioners recite the same liturgies, Catholic one week, Episcopal the next. From classes in religious education to church socials...
Though the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission laid down a doctrinal basis for joint Communion in 1971, the Church of Rome does not permit the practice. While negotiations on such matters proceeded on the world level, the Catholic and Episcopal dioceses covering Norfolk decided to try something specific on their own. Five years ago, a committee began thrashing out the details of how a joint congregation could work. By November 1977, a chapel had been rented and two priests had been recruited: Catholic Raymond A. Barton, now 40, and Episcopalian Donald W. Gross...