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...moral decisions. Yet what they hear from the pulpit on Sunday seldom seems relevant to the office problems they face on Monday. "In the natural cycle of life - birth, marriage, death -the church is doing a pretty good job," says Worth Loomis, vice president of Cleveland's Medusa Portland Cement Co. "But it is nonexistent when decisions are being made in man's line of work." Applying Christianity to the decision-making process in offices and factories is the goal of a significant new form of experimental ministry in the U.S.: the industrial missions...
...Service to America) was an exception, and so was CAP (Community Action Program). At the local level, though, it was acronyms aweigh. Detroit opened TAP (Total Action Against Poverty). New York insisted on BEST (Basic Essential Skills Training) and QUEST (Queens Educational and Social Team). There was PROP (Portland Regional Opportunities Program) and DWOP, which sounds like a mispronunciation but represents Denver War on Poverty. A less felicitous coinage was the name given a privately financed program at Haverford College: Broadening Opportunities...
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...field for local and state offices-greatest number in at least 28 years-seven Republicans and three Democrats were contesting one congressional seat. Republican Margaret Chase Smith's U.S. Senate seat is sought by two Democrats: State Representative Plato Truman and, to compound the confusion, a Portland landscape consultant named Jack L. Smith, 43. Moreover, a Democrat named Carlton Reed is challenging Republican Governor John H. Reed...
With a rising crime rate (the FBI reports forcible rape up 7%), and U.S. women arming themselves with gas pellets, cattle prods, sirens and penknives, Portland police decided such implements were useless without rudimentary training in self-defense. Moreover, once instructed a woman could actually protect herself with no more than the normal contents of her purse. Portland Police Academy Captain William Taylor announced a free training course for women, expected about 50 candidates, found himself swamped with 500 applications in two days...