Word: revs
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ETHIOPIA. Replacing the recently resigned Rev. Dr. Joseph Simonson, 52, Lutheran minister and publicist (and reportedly one of the U.S. diplomats who fell into Dick Nixon's "cornball" category during the Vice President's recent African trip): Don Carroll Bliss, 59, now foreign service inspector in the State Department and a hardworking, unobtrusive career officer who has done duty in Ottawa, London, Calcutta. Paris, Athens, Bangkok, Singapore and Djakarta during his 34 years with the foreign service...
...Last month district attorneys from 38 Pennsylvania counties met to "discuss new methods of combatting the obscene literature pouring into the state." but were anable to agree on any fair or workable censorship formula. Even churchmen do not agree that the stag magazines drive children to delinquency. The Rev. Owen McKinley Walton, executive director of Pittsburgh's Council of Churches, denounced them as "literary chloroform, deadening the moral and spiritual strength of our youth.'' But Unitarian Minister Irving R. Murray, chairman of the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, who "deplores dirty magazines properly defined...
...Rev. Dr. Hugh Halton, unofficial adviser to Catholic students at Princeton, disclosed yesterday that he was an adviser to the Harvard "Veritas" Committee...
Your April 1 article on the Rev. Robert Gingery, the Methodist minister who killed the bank robber, says he "made his peace with God and with the Fifth Commandment." I think you have your commandments mixed, as the Fifth is "Honor thy father and thy mother." I think you should have said Sixth, which says "Thou shalt not kill...
...Very Rev. Eryl Stephen Thomas, dean of Llandaff Cathedral in Wales, was categorical. Restoration of the cathedral, which had been virtually destroyed in 1941 by German bombers, was being planned, and the question of a statue of Christ for the nave had been raised. "Only one man can do it," said the dean. "Jacob Epstein...