Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matrons who saw the play last week were so moved that they rushed backstage after the final curtain and donated $5,000 apiece on the spot to keep Charlie going. One was Mrs. William J. Strawbridge Jr., 25; the other was her older sister, who is married to the Rev. Robert L. Pierson, a dedicated civil-rights advocate who was arrested in 1961 for participating in a bus station pray-in in Jackson, Miss. Both are daughters of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and their generous and spontaneous gesture won't do Candidate Rockefeller any harm with...
...knack for breaking race barriers without catering to either politics or sentimentalism. Last week, at their 176th General Assembly in Oklahoma City, the Presbyterians elected a qualified and articulate church statesman as moderator of the 3,291,998-member church for a one-year term. He is the Rev. Edler Hawkins, 55, a Negro...
...REV.) DON CREAGER Trinity Reformed Church Mercersburg...
...introduced to the Church of England and to get a name. The Most Rev. Arthur Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, was preparing to do the honors; seven godparents, starting with his Queen, were waiting; water from the River Jordan was sent for the occasion; and the christening robe made for Queen Victoria's children was dug out of the attic for him to wear. But none of that made the slightest impression on the son of Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy. Just like any other healthy ten-week-old, he let out a sharp little yip as he was baptized...
...pursuit of compromise made the conference sometimes seem more like a political convention than a church meeting, as delegates caucused in hotel corridors and committee rooms to work out approvable resolutions. In the end, conference moderates, led by such powerful Methodist figures as Lawyer Charles Parlin and the Rev. Harold Bosley of Manhattan's Christ Church, devised a number of carefully hedged stands that satisfied the South without totally alienating the North's firebrand integrationists...