Word: pulpiteering
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...James Reston, the Times's outpost in the capital grew into an independent fiefdom, often brilliant but sometimes slack and slow compared with less lofty competitors. Complaints along these lines from New York headquarters were brushed aside almost as a matter of principle. In 1964, Reston acquired the pulpit of a full-time pundit, and was replaced as bureau chief by Tom Wicker, a top reporter, occasional columnist and indifferent administrator...
...accepted an unprecedented invitation from John Cardinal Heenan, 63, to speak at London's Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral. Demonstrators from the conservative British Council of Protestant Christian Churches waited for Ramsey outside the cathedral, name-calling and waving placards that accused Ramsey of "Running to Rome." In the pulpit, His Grace was unwavering. "We are able now," he said, "with the authority of both our churches, to act together not as rivals but as allies...
Died. Homer Martin, 66, first president of the United Auto Workers; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A onetime Baptist minister, Martin quit the pulpit in 1933 to work at General Motors, where he helped organize employees and became head of the fledgling union in 1936 when it bolted the A.F.L. to join the more militant C.I.O. After three years, during which union membership grew from 27,000 to 149,000, he lost out in an intra-union power struggle with the Reuther brothers and eventually left the labor movement...
...rector of Edinburgh University, Author-Iconoclast Malcolm Muggeridge, 64, is supposed to act as intermediary between students and administration. Last week, in his annual address from the pulpit of St. Giles's Cathedral, the High Kirk of Edinburgh, the Mugger reaffirmed his sympathies with the rebellious ways of youth, "up to and including blowing up this magnificent edifice." The point at which he lost touch, however, was the demand that birth-control pills be handed out at the university's medical dispensary. That sort of request, said Muggeridge, "raised in me not so much disapproval as contempt...
...from 1924 to 1935, Van Paassen attacked fascism with such gusto that he was thrown out of Germany and Italy; as an author, he wrote a dozen instant histories and produced in 1939 an autobiographical bestseller in Days of Our Years. After World War II, he went to the pulpit and devoted nearly all his time to battling religious and political intolerance as a Unitarian minister...