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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five years ago, a young Army veteran named Michael Delamarian, a graduate of South Carolina's Bible-teaching Bob Jones University, took over the rundown, 90-member Calvary Bible Church-a storefront operation on Chicago's Near North Side. It was an area crowded with similar churches, and within a year Delamarian decided that "it was more in keeping with the Lord's work" to move. He picked suburban Mount Prospect, 14 miles away, as his new place to serve...
...Folsom and five other Democrats, is not about to sit down and talk. In retaliation for the boycott, the City Commission cut off city relief payments, most of which go to Negroes; Connor denied a routine permit for a long-planned, house-to-house collection for Miles's rundown library...
...history is any guide, most of the front pages of the U.S. press will bloom next week with the same story: a rundown of winners in that annual spring sweepstakes, the Pulitzer Prize awards...
...English invented railways, and have never quite recovered from the pride and guilt of their creation. Nowhere else on earth does rundown rolling stock excite such tantrums or such tenderness. Britons venerate the shabby Victorian discomfort of antiquated first-class carriages; they despair if the diesel hauling them pants into a station 40 seconds late. When a moneylosing branch line closes down, the island is roiled with grief. Cried the headline over a lengthy London Times story last year: THE TIDDLYDIKE BRANCH LINE DIES TODAY. Sorrow had hardly faded before British Railways raised fares to pay for other uneconomical Tiddlydikes...
...three years overseas as a missionary before attending college, but because of his devotion to church affairs in later life, he received a rare second "call'' to return to mission work. In England, he took over a mission that had only 10,000 members, a scattering of rundown churches, 160 proselytizers. Woodbury called for more missionaries from Salt Lake City, pioneered a cram course in Mormon dogma that reduced the prebaptism indoctrination time from weeks to days. To spur hard-working missionaries toward greater efforts, Woodbury coined football-style "yells"' and such upbeat slogans as "Have Baptism...