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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...
...Peoria, Ill., which noted that she was the first First Lady to visit as an official guest in 140 years, Lady Bird dedicated the city's modernistic new $4,500,000 county courthouse and gardens in the heart of a $50 million, eight-block downtown renewal project. "A city is not just a collection of stores and homes and shops," said Lady Bird. "It is a place for people to live and, hopefully, it is a place where they can live the good life." Then, hefting a chrome-plated shovel, she planted a Japanese cherry tree. When...
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...