Word: portland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community and cultural center in the Roxbury slum. In Washington, Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle announced a moratorium on all new Roman Catholic church building and improvements so that funds would be freed to "help relieve the chronic causes of poverty in our midst." In Portland, Ore., the Council of Churches designated May 5 "Summer Crisis Sunday," when each congregation will be asked to provide decent jobs for slum dwellers and help provide support for summer programs...
...GOETH Portland...
...Scalapino, Teodoro Moscoso, former coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, and Wayne Fredericks of the Ford Foundation. At every stop, public discussions will be held under the sponsorship of local World Affairs Councils and universities. Starting this week in Los Angeles, the jet-borne conference will visit San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Houston, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Chicago and Dallas. The meetings are meant for community participation; those who wish to attend should call their local World Affairs Council...
...mercy. A fusillade from a Communist automatic weapon killed him; his wife died moments later when the North Vietnamese sprayed the inside of the bunker with small-arms fire. On leaving the mission, the Reds kidnaped another American nurse, Miss Betty Olsen, 32, and Henry Blood of Portland, Ore., a member of the Wycliffe Bible Translators...
Much the same could be said of Daniel Poling. The son of an Evangelical minister, he was born in Portland, Ore., accepted his first call as a preacher at a United Evangelical church in Canton, Ohio, in 1905. From then on, his life as a minister of the Gospel and a servant of man were inextricably interwoven. During the '20s, he was probably the nation's most popular radio preacher, and for eight years he was pastor of Manhattan's prestigious Marble Collegiate Church-a post now held by his friend and disciple, Norman Vincent Peale. Poling...