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Died. The Rt. Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger, 68, Presiding Bishop from 1959 to 1965 of the 3.5 million-member Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S. and one of its leading advocates of social reform. Though patient as Job on some matters, Lichtenberger was no middle-of-the-roader on others, urged his flock to join civil rights protest movements and pointedly reminded them that "each of us is involved in the struggle for racial justice by our prayers, our citizenship and our giving...
...mixture of carefully balanced political calculations and genuine personal warmth. It was, by any reasonable standard, corny, but it also was one of Nixon's most effective speeches in years. Gone was the excessive partisanship and professional anti-Communism of his early days. The nation wants a high-roader after Lyndon Johnson. The republic has survived subversion. The cold war is passé. Viet Nam is something to be settled, not won. So Nixon told them what they wanted to hear. "Tonight I do not promise the millennium in the morning. I don't promise that we can eradicate poverty...
Williams, calling himself a middle-of-the-roader, has appealed to the "reasonable" element among segregationists and conservatives and has left Barnett try to out-scream Swan for the rabid-racist support. Williams has the distinct advantage of having lost his House seniority by supporting Republican Barry Goldwater in the 1964 election. This made a minor martyr of him. In a Southern state like Mississippi, where personal attacks rather than issues dominate campaigns, promises differ in tone and emphasis and not in content. Williams, who has amply proved his conservative credentials by giving up his Party power for Goldwater, does...
Williams, 48, a stubborn segregationist who was stripped of his House seniority when he bolted the Democratic Party to support Barry Goldwater in 1964, is campaigning as-of all things -a middle-of-the-roader, and tries to avoid the old racial cliches...
...required by tradition to deliver the principal sermon at St. Paul's services on six feast days of the church calendar-but in effect he be comes year-round pulpit spokesman for Anglicanism's most famous cathedral. Theologically and politically, Sullivan considers himself a middle-of-the-roader on the plausible ground that "the middle of the road means where the road is." A knowledgeable theologian, he feels that such avant-garde Anglicans as Bishop John A. T. Robinson (Honest to God) have gone too far and too fast for the church's faithful. "The ordinary...