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Parker denounces the FCC as "the lap dog of the broadcasting industry." The commission, however, is caught between the courts and the Congress. There is strong support for Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore's Senate bill to force the commission to grant licenses in near perpetuity. The measure would forbid the FCC from considering TV-license applications by anybody but the existing holder, unless he has already been denied a renewal. With Judge Burger's decision, the lines have been drawn for another collision and the outcome could easily alter the functions of the FCC and, in consequence...
Members of the board of trustees and faculty of a college in Rhode Island subscribed annually to the doctrinal statement following: "We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament as verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and as the supreme and final authority in faith and life." Untold millions of people agree. Could any but a sectarian mind believe that a loving, merciful, just God would harden Pharoah's heart (Exodus 11:10) so that he would not let the Israelites go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would...
Married. Adam Clayton Powell III, 22, TV news-producer son of Harlem's high-rolling Congressman and Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott; and Beryl Gillespie Slocum, 26, socialite descendant of Rhode Island Founder Roger Williams; in an Episcopalian ceremony attended by both families; at St. Mary's Chapel in the Washington Cathedral...
With the Boys. Leo Heroux, a Rhode Islander, first saw Omaha on June 6, 1944, as a 19-year-old G.I. with the 5th Special Engineer Brigade. Later that day, when the U.S. attack had punched inland, a friendly farmer gave him a drink of milk and Heroux met the man's pretty daughter. They were married after the war and returned to Normandy to live. Heroux has four children now and runs a driving school with his father-in-law. Every June 6, he closes his office and wanders down barren Omaha Beach to "walk over the sand...
...celebrate this earlier renaissance, the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design has mounted a small but superb exhibition of 63 Romanesque and early Gothic stone sculptures...