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Secretary Hickel releases plans to divert the Mississippi River through Alaska and build a $500-million amusement park called "Tom Sawyer's Bargain Basement." Selective Service rejects David Eisenhower's claim that he is a Quaker by marriage, and dispatches young Eisenhower to South Vietnam...
...classified as a conscientious objector, a man need not be a Quaker, a Mennonite, or a member of some other sect that opposes war as a matter of religious conviction. Instead, a federal law exempts from active military duty anyone who cannot serve because of "religious training and belief." In amending the law last year, Congress struck out the requirement that such a belief be "in a relation to a Supreme Being." In view of this, could an atheist-a person who expressly disavows faith in God -be excused as an objector...
Nixon was brought up in a strict and remarkably devout Quaker home. Each morning at breakfast, he and his four brothers took turns reading Scripture aloud to the family. As a youth, he played the organ and taught Sunday school at the Friends' meeting house in East Whittier, Calif. On Wednesday nights there were prayer meetings, on Thursday choir practice. "Our little community church was the center of our lives," Nixon has recalled. For a time, his mother Hannah hoped that Dick might enter the Friends' ministry...
...vacation retreat in Florida, Nixon worships at Key Biscayne's Presbyterian church. Nevertheless, he still lists himself as a Quaker. His mother described him once as "an intensely religious man, but he shuns even the restrained rituals of the faith. I am sure other Quakers understand my son. They know why he has been the center of so many controversies. Quakers are gentle and tolerant people, but they are also stubborn in defending their opinions and high-minded in pursuing their ideals...
...course, I got deeper and deeper into the direction which I was travelling, humor. And it became a hilarious paper; people would scream at it. That's when the Church; I guess they didn't like the idea of the headlines, they thought it should be the old Quaker line such as the old Boston Post, or something. Uncle Ned, or whatever it was. So they put the crush on me, I lost a lot of sales, through South Boston, especially in the Catholic area, in fact they invaded the South End area...