Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rev. Stephen J. Daday, principal of Allentown (Pa.) Central Catholic High School, is a man of decision. Last week he tackled a teen-age affliction-going steady-and barred it among his 1,600 students. Going steady, said Father Daday, "creates distractions to make concentrated study impossible. It often leads to marriages between couples who are too immature emotionally to assume the obligations of the marriage state. It sometimes occasions what we might call 'forced marriages.' " From now on, ordered Father Daday, boys and girls who insist on going steady will be barred from honor societies, the student...
Into a Manhattan federal courtroom last week strode the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 51, pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, longtime (eight terms) U.S. Democratic Congressman and alltime prince of New York City's big (900,000) Negro community. Handsome, carefully tailored Adam Powell was uncommonly nervous. After many and sundry delays the U.S. had finally haled him before a jury on two-year-old charges of dodging federal income taxes. The indictment charged that Powell, in filing 1951 and 1952 tax returns for himself and his estranged wife, Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, had defrauded...
...leader of the sit-ins, the Rev. James Morris Lawson Jr., 31, was expelled from Vanderbilt University's divinity school by the trustees because of his "strong commitment to a planned campaign of civil disobedience." At week's end Lawson and 79 others, mostly Negroes, were arrested on state charges of conspiracy to disrupt trade and commerce. (Maximum penalty: eleven months and 29 days and/or $1,000 fine.) They were quickly bailed out; 16 Vanderbilt divinity faculty members posted bond for Lawson. Meanwhile, worried Mayor Ben West ("Please, let's avoid a blood bath in this community...
...REV.) RAYMOND D. GROFF United Church of Christ Zieglerville...
...York, reached an altitude of 300 feet, then unaccountably veered off to the left and crashed. The fuselage of the big Italian DC-7 ripped through a country churchyard and a flock of sheep, leaving a mile-long trail of bodies, tombstones and burning debris. Said the Rev. Thomas Comerford, pastor of the church: "People were screaming, sheep were crying, and dogs were barking. It was like a scene from hell." Of 52 aboard, 30 were killed, and many of the 22 survivors were critically burned...