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...counsel and Ohio Democrat Louis Stokes as chairman. But much of the credit must go to North Carolina Democrat Richardson Preyer, who headed the subcommittee that probed J.F.K.'s assassination. In two years as a federal judge and ten years in Congress, Preyer, 59, a Bible-quoting Presbyterian elder, has won wide respect for fairness and patience. He soothed the personality conflicts, helped stop the leaks, and set the committee to work...
...given $2,640,000 to groups that oppose "racism." More than half went to black organizations in southern Africa that have used guerrilla violence in trying to overthrow white minority regimes. The revolutionary grants program began when the W.C.C. general secretary was Eugene Carson Blake, a liberal U.S. Presbyterian with a flair for politics. It was controversial from the start, but the W.C.C. easily lined up enough backing from its 293 Protestant and Orthodox member denominations to fend off critics...
...program seems to be succeeding. Infant mortality rates have declined in each of the regions served by the project. At New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the hub of a 16-hospital network in Manhattan and New Jersey that handles 16,000 births a year, the incidence of stillbirths, and deaths within seven days of life in infants weighing 2.2 lbs. or more has dropped from 22.8 per thousand births in 1967 to 9.6 per thousand in 1977. Many of these problem births were from the Harlem ghetto, and Administrator Dr. Solan Chao points out that quite...
Stoltzman, in fact, came to the classical clarinet by the unorthodox route of jazz. During his childhood in San Francisco, he and his father, a railroad man with a passion for the tenor sax, would im- provise hymns at Presbyterian Sunday school. "We'd play the main-line melody and then just float in and out of harmonies," he recalls. "That freedom not to play all the notes exactly as they were written was the beginning to me of making music...
...striking coincidence, the first legal reverberations from test-tube fertilization were being felt last week. In U.S. district court in New York, a jury of four women and two men was hearing testimony in an unusual $1.5 million damage suit against Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and its chief of obstetrics and gynecology, Dr. Raymond Vande Wiele. The action was brought by a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., dentist, Dr. John Del Zio, 59, and his wife Doris, 34. Despite several operations, Mrs. Del Zio had apparently been unable to become pregnant because of tubal problems. In 1972, she agreed...