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Gazing at the overflow congregation in All Saints' Church, Bishop Donald Davis recited the statement that precedes all Episcopal ordinations: "If any of you know any impediment or crime because of which we should not proceed, come forward now and make it known." Immediately Indiana Layman Robert 'Strippy rose to condemn the proceedings as "heresy" and "sacrilege." Said he: "The result can only be schism from the body of Christ." With that a dozen people, many of them in tears, marched out of the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Father, Make Her a Priest' | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...sincerity. There may be moments when he speculates with great profundity and great tedium about every slimydeep secret in Muldoon's self-absorbed soul. Yet there is something appealing about a man who defines his condition thus: "The plumbing of my mind was suffering from a momentary backup and overflow of literary illuminations...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Alley-Catting, God Knows Where | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

...contain 17 songs, with an overflow 7-in. disc holding four more. As usual, Stevie operates as a virtual one-man music company. Throughout the album, he acts as composer, singer, instrumentalist and producer. Despite his multiple involvement, Songs has all the spontaneity and relaxation of a jumping jamboree. Indeed, there has not been a pop album this good or this diversified since Wonder's Fulfillingness's First Finale in 1974. Stevie growls at times like an old delta blues shouter, but for the most part he sings in his distinctive black/white style, which occasionally echoes Paul McCartney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Jumping Jamboree | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

This weekend, his parents will be part of the overflow crowd at The Stadium. "The hardest thing is that I'm so far away," Baggott said. "This is the first time that my mother's been able to see me play...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Loose Ball... Baggott Recovers | 11/10/1976 | See Source »

Still, these minor defects do not mar his skills as a lawyer or the service he did the people of Buffalo Creek. Still, four years later unsafe gob piles periodically overflow in back hollows of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. They are conscientiously disregarded by company officials and state inspectors. The people of Buffalo Creek are still trying to put their lives back together; some still live in the temporary housing the government moved in after the flood. From Stern's account, for the people of Buffalo Creek and the Pittston Company it all came down to one question...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Coal | 7/16/1976 | See Source »

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