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...person I have known who most naturally fit into the pace of New Orleans -- a person whose normal and astonishingly effective way of keeping appointments was to stroll around the French Quarter, assuming he'd run into the appropriate person by and by -- was born and raised in Pottsville, Pa...
...character." Finding time to answer all the letters -- along with the hundreds of others she has received -- may take some doing. And more may be on the way. Soon after the packet arrived from Canada, Cheng received a telephone call from Joan Audrish, a teacher in Factoryville, Pa.; she plans to use the TIME excerpts to teach her ninth- and tenth-graders about the Cultural Revolution. As for Cheng, she is doing some studying herself, boning up on U.S. history in preparation for becoming an American citizen. Says she: "I haven't been so happy since 1966," the year...
...very much aware there is nothing tidy about our proposal," confessed Father Jeffrey Steenson of Rosemont, Pa., a member of the committee that crafted the compromise. The bishops readily passed the bill after endorsement by Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning, who was leading his first church convention, but it was nearly killed by priests and laity in the separate House of Deputies. Nedi Moore, a woman priest from Salinas, Calif., termed the measure "insulting," and the Rev. James Fisher of Easton, Md., objected to the idea that "you can be a bishop here but not a bishop there...
Elsie Hillman, head of George Bush'spresidential campaign in Pennsylvania and aRepublican National Committee member, said inHarrisburg, Pa., that she was told by Bushcampaign officials that Thornburgh had been askedto take...
...state constitution forbade him fromholding office a third consecutive term, theattraction of running in an election was not loston Thornburgh as 1986 approached. First he toyedwith the idea of running against incumbent ArlenSpecter (R-Pa.) for a U.S. Senate seat. Hisstatewide popularity would have made that electiona close one, but friendship with Specter and adesire to "get out of politics for a while" madeThornburgh change his mind, he said last summer...