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Responding to the complaints of parishioners, Bishop May investigated and commanded Roth last October to quit the congregation. Roth refused. May then got a court order directing the pastor to leave. On Nov. 13 the recalcitrant Roth was arrested and began a 112-day jail term. Released from jail, Roth returned last week to Trinity, which was padlocked by court order, and conducted a Communion service on the church lawn...
...dedicated to his grandfather, the Senator who helped keep the U.S. out of the League of Nations after World War I and for whom young Cabot was named. In his early years serving in the Senate, Lodge was an isolationist like his forebear, but during World War II, he quit his Senate post to fight in the European theater. By the time he was re-elected to the Senate in 1946, he was an internationalist, convinced that the war had taught "the value of collective security." In the early 1950s, as a leader of the moderate Republican wing, Lodge helped...
More than a decade after U.S. military forces quit Viet Nam, a team of American recovery specialists was permitted to enter Laos for a two-week examination of the crash site of an AC-130 Spectre gunship. The area was being scoured for the remains of 13 U.S. crewmen still listed as missing in action. The joint mission, which included Laotian soldiers and government officials as well as U.S. specialists, worked at its task in a dense patch of jungle 25 miles northeast of the city of Pakse. The search is a continuation of the U.S. Government's long-term...
Angry stockholder meetings are a long way from Icahn's early life as the son of a synagogue cantor in New York City. After studying philosophy at Princeton, the future raider spent two years in medical school, but quit when he realized that he was not enjoying the work--and becoming a bit of a hypochondriac to boot. After a stint in the Army at Fort Sam Houston, he used a few thousand dollars won in barracks poker games to get started on Wall Street. He made $50,000 in the bull market of 1961, then lost it just...
After a decade of steady growth in the family business, everything started to go wrong. In 1975, at age 33, Jacobs was depressed and ready to quit. "I said to myself, 'What do I need any more money for? I've had enough of Big Business.' " At the root of his malaise was the failure of Grain Belt Breweries, which he had bought with a $4 million loan. In his attempts to make it more profitable, he filmed a TV commercial with the line: "It may be my brewery, but it's your beer." Nothing worked. Says...