Word: pennsylvania
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...Committee of Twelve" has sent a vicious anti-Rader letter to all Worldwide ministers. Rader's candidate to take over may be the newly installed director of the church's ministry, C. Wayne Cole. But Garner Ted should not be counted out. Says Professor Joseph Hopkins of Pennsylvania's Westminster College, author of a recent book called The Armstrong Empire: "There is nobody around who can take Garner Ted's place as radio-TV money raiser. The Worldwide Church of God has no future without...
University of Pennsylvania Art Buchwald...
...number of jobs to be filled has leaped from 310,000 to 725,000. The program, however, is at best a stopgap substitute for welfare. It takes the jobless off the streets but does not prepare them for permanent employment. Says Bernard Anderson, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School: "Most of the money has been spent on Job Corps-type programs of scraping graffiti off telephone poles rather than skill-training for specific jobs...
...joke when Weidenbaum brings forth sheaves of records of dozens of foundries-in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky-that had to close because they could not afford to meet requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He collects reports of hundreds of small companies that have abandoned pension plans because they could not comply with the expensive requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), "and so the worker winds up with no pension...
...Connecticut, which got along for 190 years without a State Song, obtained one at last when the legislature picked Yankee Doodle-after replacing the word girls with folks. Widely criticized years ago for ending a session in which the designation of the Great Dane was its signal achievement, the Pennsylvania legislature this year bent its energies to the selection of a State Cat (alley cat favored). Success would create the possibility, as one statehouse joker put it, "of the State Dog chasing the State Cat up the State Tree [hemlock...