Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under a Pall. Though 90% of U.S. funerals are conducted with open coffins, the clergy are generally opposed. "If they had their way," says Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake of the United Presbyterian Church, "I think that most ministers would discourage the open casket during funeral services." Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike points out that while a dead body should be treated with respect, Christian doctrine teaches that it is no longer the person, who "in life to come receives a new, appropriate means of expression and relationship...
...Gilliland family plan had been made 18 months earlier, after hearing Dr. John H. Galbreath, pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church, preach about corneal transplants as a way "to live on usefully after death." Willard Gilliland, a solid, civic-minded man (he was safety and security director for Aluminum Co. of America) talked it over with his wife and elder children. They agreed to donate their corneas to the Eye Bank of Pittsburgh...
...little housing: one-fourth of its fulltime students are commuters. But it no longer talks of moving to the suburbs; instead, it made the city its new frontier. Aroused by the street-corner murder of a Korean student in 1957, Penn mobilized four other institutions (Drexel Institute of Technology, Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, and Philadelphia College of Osteopathy) in renewing West Philadelphia from a slum to a sprightly University City. By aiding the public schools with advice and scholarships, Penn stemmed a white flight-without driving Negroes away. Some house prices have doubled...
...university (1779) than Harvard, Penn practically founded the Republic. The Continental Congress met in its old College Hall in 1778; ten Penn founders signed the Declaration of Independence and seven signed the Constitution. But later, Penn's deliberate religious freedom sent believers to churchy schools such as Presbyterian Princeton, and by 1807 Penn had only 17 students...
...Presbyterian missionary's son and a onetime dean of Harvard Law School, Landis was a Federal Trade Commissioner in New Deal days. Under Harry Truman he served as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Late in 1960, President-elect Kennedy appointed him to investigate all of the Federal Government's regulatory agencies. In his report to Kennedy, Landis charged that the agencies "drifted, vacillated and stalled," and were "subservient" to the business interests they were supposed to regulate. Landis recommended the creation of a lofty new office to oversee all of the regulatory agencies, and businessmen shuddered...