Word: pastoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large scale foreign policy briefing session in Plains, Georgia. Katz, who is the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International-relations-oriented organizations, was one of only two Harvard faculty members invited to Plains for any of the briefing sessions. (The other was Robert Pastor, a research assistant at the Center for International Affairs...
...what's good for General Motors really is good for America," whooped Lyndon Johnson over the telephone in January 1971. He was congratulating the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, pastor of the 6,000-member Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, who had just been chosen as the first black to sit on General Motors' 23-member board of directors. Sullivan's election was widely regarded-not least by Sullivan himself-as an important test of the idea that a black presence in the board room could make a giant corporation more sensitive to the needs of minorities...
...neurologist diagnosed as epilepsy. Doctors had little success in treating her. Her devout parents, in desperation, began consulting priests. Finally, with permission from Bishop Josef Stangl of Wūrzburg, they brought in two exorcists-Father Arnold Renz, a former missionary in China, and Father Ernst Alt, a pastor in a nearby community. For ten months, beginning last September and continuing until shortly before her death, the two priests conducted an intermittent series of exorcisms to rid Anneliese of six demons they believed possessed her. The efforts were of no avail. About Easter time, her convulsions returned with renewed ferocity...
...plus such lightweight footnotes as the candidate's appearances in Sunday school, his attendance at a Carter clan reunion and his pitching performances (fairly expert) in a series of Softball games organized by CBS-TV Producer Rick Kaplan. An unremarkable sermon on the nature of sin by the pastor of the Plains Baptist Church has been covered and grudgingly reported by the wire services. Says a correspondent for a major Northern daily: "I keep telling my desk that there's no story down here, and they keep saying, 'Yeah, we understand the problem, but give...
Playing opposite Dudgeon, Robert Murch makes a virtuous and likeable Anderson. As Dudgeon less convincingly ascends to martyrdom, Murch, everworldy, acts his own transformation from tranquil pastor to booted man of war in a high comic vein...