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...start of last week, no fewer than 13 major-college teams still had unblemished season records. By the time the dust cleared, only two were unbeaten: No. 5-ranked Kentucky and unranked Texas Western. Brigham Young had had every reason to feel tall before the Quaker City Tournament in Philadelphia: with three men 6 ft. 11 in. on the team, and a 6-0 record that included a 103-83 thrashing of Philadelphia's own St. Joseph's, the Cougars had climbed all the way to No. 3 in the ratings. Imagine their surprise when they lost...
...leaving his lawyer to slip $500 in hush money to the family. Why does a man like this want to be a gentleman? It seems that "becoming a gentleman" was an obsession that Father Abraham had developed and that he thought of as "the Lockwood concern"-concern being the Quaker word for a Friend's special field of good works or vocation...
...week to the day after Quaker Norman Morrison burned himself to death outside the Pentagon, Roman Catholic Roger LaPorte, 22, a student at Manhattan's Hunter College, doused his clothes with gasoline and set himself aflame on a street corner outside United Nations headquarters. Like Morrison, he chose immolation as a way to protest U.S. warfare in South Viet...
...apparatus now known as the Central Intelligence Agency had a Revolutionary War ancestor called the Culper Ring. America's first espionage agents-a whaler, a tavern keeper, a Quaker merchant, Schoolmaster Nathan Hale-were very ingenuous spies. The members referred to each other by numbers, wrote their messages to General Washington in disappearing ink called Sympathetic Stain, and were totally hangdog about their calling. "I've lived four years of my life in fear," one of them is supposed to have said, "and I'll live the rest of it in shame." Author Corey Ford...
...boyhood. Morrison was born in Erie, Pa.; when he was 13, his widowed mother moved the family to Chautauqua, N.Y., where he became the first youth in the county to win the Boy Scouts' God and Country Award. He was raised a Presbyterian, but gradually became interested in Quaker beliefs, particularly pacifism, while a student at Wooster College. He later studied at a Presbyterian seminary in Pittsburgh and at the University of Edinburgh, and joined the Society of Friends in 1959. Since 1962 he had been executive secretary of the Stony Run Friends Meeting in Baltimore. In recent months...