Word: pike
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...Dean Pike's defense of birth control [Jan. 31] may be ingenious, but it is not Episcopal. The Church has always taken a somewhat uncompromising view on the matter of depriving others of life-which is the express purpose of birth control . . . Dean Pike refers to the sex act as "the sacrament of unity . . ." According to the Episcopal Church, a sacrament is "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." Grace, in a sense, is that which conforms us to God-the Creator. What grace can there be in an act from which every creative element...
...Birth control is God's will in many instances, said Dean James A. Pike of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to a Planned Parenthood group in Manhattan. "There is nothing more 'artificial' in this approach," according to Episcopalian Pike, "than there is in the adaptation of natural processes toward good ends in many other realms of life. Parents, in sharing God's creative process, must think through the responsibility of having children in the light of all the factors operating in their particular situation from time to time ... If they decide they should...
Spectator Sport. In Atlantic City, 17 days after he had skipped out on a $75 board bill at the rooming house of Mrs. Margaret Robbins, Angelo Pellegrini, 55, dropped by municipal court to watch the sentencing of offenders, was spotted and arrested by Detective Captain James Pike...
Protestant Protests. "An attempt to sell down the river our most precious heritage, our religious freedom," protested Episcopalian Dr. James A. Pike, Dean of the New York Cathedral (St. John the Divine). It is motivated, he added, by "fear of friction with Spain, which is so financially dependent upon us it is absurd." Thundered the National Association of Evangelicals: "An affront to all true Protestants." Flustered by the outcry, the Pentagon called an urgent conference of State Department and Air Force brass and tried to soothe everyone. The agreement has not yet been signed, said General Kissner, and when...
...diversification even harder. It now does a booming plastics business with a whole line of products for shoes, luggage, floor coverings and furniture. Goodyear also makes rubberized asphalt, has gone into the electronics business, and turns out an electronic computer called the "Geda" for the Air Force. And in Pike County, Ohio, Goodyear is slated to run a $1.2 billion gaseous diffusion plant...