Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:30-4 p.m.). The National Tourist Trophy Motorcycle Championships in Peoria, 111., and the World Roller Skating Championships in Essen, Germany...
...Peoria...
Complaints about sluggishness come mostly from younger pastors and laymen, reflecting dissatisfaction with veteran leadership. Pastor Robert Thornburg of Peoria fears that the result of this break with the old guard is not creative tension between two views of the church but mutual incomprehension. "We just choose up sides and hate each other," he says. Bishop Richard Raines of Indianapolis, who at a youthful-spirited 67 is the new president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, believes that the age of 50 is the usual dividing line. Many older members "want the church to be what...
...WALTER W. KING Peoria...
Herman the Hormone. As a careerist who rose from the lowest echelons of the service to become U.S. Ambassador to Mali, Senegal, and finally Mauritania, Villard reserves his greatest scorn for the political appointee, the "manufacturer of kazoos from Peoria," who gets the choicest embassies for the fattest campaign contributions...