Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...placid Ohio River town of New Albany, Ind. (pop. 32,000) one day last week, a Methodist minister and an Indiana state policeman took time out to celebrate an anniversary: three years before, under the gentle, persistent prodding of the Rev. Robert W. Gingery, 37, burly, hard-boiled Sergeant Marvin Walts, 49, had given up the unequal struggle, and become a member of Gingery's Trinity Methodist Church. To honor the anniversary, Policeman Walts invited his minister to ride with him on a routine inspection of the countryside. Then, at 1:15 p.m., as they cruised along U.S. Highway...
...coming to kill me." But the second thought was stronger: picking up a sawed-off shotgun from the front seat of the car, he worked frantically with the safety catch, released it just as Hassett began to fire through the rear window into the car. The Rev. Mr. Gingery pointed the shotgun at the window and pulled the trigger again and again...
...Manhattan taxi driver recently mistook Norman Vincent Peale for a physician. After grumping about the weather and shrugging off the Rev. Dr. Peak's cheery rejoinders ("Good old rain"), the cabby turned to state his symptoms: "Say doc, I've got some pains in my back. I feel terrible." As Author Peale tells it. he replied: "Although I'm not accustomed to practicing in taxicabs, I think you have psycho-sclerosis...
Abduction! cried her family and their Catholic friends, and they accused the Rev. David Leathern, who had converted Maura, of spiriting her away. Free Presbyterian Leathern denied any knowledge of the girl's whereabouts, and so did Alan Paisley, moderator of the church. But Paisley eventually produced what he said was a tape recording of Maura's voice, and played it to an audience consisting of all of Belfast's 1,000 Free Presbyterians, Maura's family and the police. "My Roman Catholic religion had been fear and dread," said the voice. "The new religion...
...After serving a five-year term for "threatening the security" of Communist China, the Rev. Paul J. Mackensen Jr., last missionary of the United Lutheran Church in America to remain in China, was released from a Shanghai prison. Baltimorean Mackensen said he had decided to stay in Shanghai if he could find a job there. "I learned something of the program for social changes taking place in China," he said. "Now I'd like to study what is going...