Word: shepherding
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...unity groups back in the 1950s, has been secretly marshaling the yes vote. In a sermon at St. Paul's Cathedral, the Bishop of London tried to elevate the level of debate. Taking his text from the Gospel of St. John ("There shall be one fold and one shepherd"), the bishop implied that the Lord himself was a staunch pro-Marketeer...
...woman, caught between a bus and the building when a shell burst, was carried inside unconscious, but only from fright. A European walked down the line asking everybody to sign a 500-piaster note he wanted to keep as a souvenir. Sister Fidema of the Good Shepherd Convent in Saigon knelt over her suitcase and prayed. "I've been here four years," she said later. "These have been good years until this week. But this has been the saddest ever." The day before, 90 children from the convent had been taken out to Tan Son Nhut but had been...
...high U.S. officials termed "nightmarish possibilities." By this they meant a final Viet Nam horror of American troops' having to fight their way into South Viet Nam against the dual firepower of both the once friendly South Vietnamese soldiers and those of the North to rescue American civilians and shepherd them...
This year's applicants for Education for Action (F4A) grants also have as good a chance to be awarded a grant as last year. Director W. Shepherd Bliss said this week that F4A will probably have an "unusually high" number of grant applications, and will give out more money than last year in order to meet the increased demand. The extra money will come from F4A's reserve funds, since "this is a bad year for raising money...
...beleaguered Beame has to shepherd the city through a crisis he did not create. But the mayor has a few advantages. A homespun accountant who joined the city government in 1946, he can speak to the civil servants with rolled-up-sleeves rapport. Union members do not distrust him, as they did John Lindsay. Unlike Lindsay, who was always feuding with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Abe Beame gets along well with Governor Hugh Carey - an asset in a city that receives almost one-third of its budget from the state. In addition, the city's ambitious comptroller, Harrison Goldin...