Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known as PARDON.* A dropout from the diocesan ministry himself, Sterling, 57, resigned last October as Bishop of Montana because he felt "completely frustrated in my work." A zealous Christian activist, he was discouraged by the failure of Montana Episcopalians to support such measures as laws against racial discrimination in housing, and the organization of urban ministries...
...tame talkathon is directed against a civil rights bill that would make it a federal crime to commit violence-including murder-against members of racial and religious minorities trying to exercise their civil rights. The bill, already approved by the House, was the Senate's "pending business" when the current session opened. With teams of Southern Senators sharing the speaking, rarely heard by more than one or two colleagues, the bill is still pending...
...broad goals. He promised to spell out later his own "ways and means" of bringing the war "to a quicker conclusion." In Concord, where Nixon gave his first major speech of the campaign, he held L.B.J. to account not only for failure to end the war, but for crime, racial tensions and economic problems as well. "I don't think America can afford four more years of Lyndon Johnson in the White House," he said...
...appointments reflect Pusey's current interest in relating Harvard's teaching more closely to contemporary social problems. Bok sees a need for the Law School to draw more heavily upon the skills of other departments within the university, then apply their combined knowledge to such issues as racial discrimination, aid to the poor and labor relations. Similarly, Stendahl feels that the Divinity School curriculum should reflect more of the church's concern with the eradication of social ills. By coincidence, Bok and Stendahl are good personal friends and have a common interest in things Swedish...
Less Than Everything. Politically, the Star continues to be reasonably conservative without the doctrinaire tone it once had. It fully supports racial integration, though it has angered some local Negroes by opposing Washington home rule. Its grounds, of course, are not racial but the fear that with home rule Congress would not appropriate sufficient funds for its share of the city's government. The Star generally backs the President on Viet Nam but, as Foreign Editor Crosby Noyes puts it, "we're not for automatic and unending escalation...