Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Presbyterian Leader Eugene Carson Blake first proposed the idea from the pulpit of San Francisco's Episcopal Grace Cathedral in 1960, it electrified U.S. Christianity: as a step toward ultimate church reunion, he said, mainstream American Protestants must unite. At the time, Blake optimistically predicted that the project would need ten years to bear any fruit at all; pessimists seemed to think it was impossible. Last week, as the Consultation on Church Union met for the eighth time in Atlanta to carry forward Blake's pioneering proposal, it appeared that the participants were willing to accept...
...four denominations originally invited to form the union were Blake's United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ and the Methodist Church. Joining later were the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern), the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and the Evangelical United Brethren. Last year the Evangelical United Brethren merged with the Methodist Church to become the United Methodist Church...
Change in Attitude. Many doctors are protesting, some have become highly emotional about the matter, and a few are trying to sabotage the law. In Birmingham, England's second-largest city (pop. 1,200,000), Professor Hugh McLaren, a strong-willed Scottish Presbyterian, simply refuses to perform abortions except in case of "dire peril" to the woman's life. Since he is head of the NHS's Maternity Hospital there, he can decree what subordinates may or may not do-and they may not perform abortions. The effect of the McLaren ukase is to send most Birmingham...
...best care at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, which operates an elaborate unit exclusively for pediatric cardiology. For surgery on such a baby's heart, U.S. surgeons are preeminent. So are the surgeons who operate on older patients' arteries. For trouble in the brain's arteries, researchers at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center have helped to develop a magnetic probe that will swim through the arterial labyrinth and tell the neurologist what he needs to know. At Harvard, surgeons practice knifeless surgery with a proton gun that destroys overactive tissue deep inside the skull. At Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, ophthalmic...
...intends to make the most of it. Though he prefers to settle most issues with negotiations, Allen, son of a Presbyterian minister, has shown a steely sense of mission in handing down controversial decisions. He was charged with "coddling the Communists" when he blocked a New York City teacher-loyalty campaign in the 1950s, and he was even more the target of acrimony when he ordered the integration of hostile all-white districts in 1963. But after last fall's bitter, 36-day New York City teacher strike, he was the only major participant to emerge with his reputation...