Word: selma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious agony of decision that Flowers showed at the Judiciary Committee debates has led many to express respect for his pro-impeachment stand. "I don't think his vote reflects the sentiment of his constituency," says Selma mayor Joe Smitherman, "[but] I do understand how he came to the conclusion to vote the way he did." The feeling that he did what he thought was right, combined with his overall popularity, will probably enable him to survive in the coming congressional election. For the moment, in fact, Flowers has no opposition for reelection...
...immigrant Pennsylvania coal miner, Father Baroni was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1956, served in working-class parishes in Altoona and Johnstown, Pa. Transferred to Washington, D.C., he became active in civil rights and in 1965 was among the first priests to go to Alabama for the Selma-Montgomery march. He helped launch Washington's Head Start program, and a decade of his community action programs culminated in the establishment of the Urban Ethnic Center...
Angela greeted Howard Moore-whom she had not seen since the trial--most warmly of all. She kissed Hosea Williams--the shortly, scrappy preacher who led the bloody march to Pettus Bridge at Selma--and let him slide a blacksmith's arm around her. But when she saw Howard Moore, she slipped away from Hosea and, letting her clipboard fall, wrapped her arms around her attorney's neck. "Oh. Howard," she said as she hugged him. Lucky Howard...
...hardly looks like the usual equipage for a bishop who was a slum priest and marched at Selma: a 70-ft., three-bedroom, three-bath cabin cruiser anchored in San Francisco Bay, its brass-filigreed bow and mahogany-planked deck gleaming in the sun. But for California's boat-loving C. Kilmer Myers, the Daring will serve as a year-round home-and Myers is paying the reported $50,000 price out of his own pocket. When Myers was elected to the see of California in 1966, after the resignation of the late James A. Pike, he inherited...
...current issue of the Exceptional Parent, Allan's father, William Schenkein, writes a tribute to his son. Patiently, Schenkein and his wife Selma taught him to feed, dress and look after himself and sent him to special day schools where he learned the rudiments of reading, writing and arithmetic. Now Allan travels alone by public bus to a simple job doing light factory work in a Denver agency for the retarded. More important, he has become a "sturdy, happy, friendly, cooperative person with a good sense of humor, good manners and a good sense of responsibility...