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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointment of priests and it will be a sad day when they do." His actions, however, carried ramifications far beyond mere clerical appointments. For the leftist leanings of the H-R ministry were in constant friction with Church superiors and its termination is symptomatic of a swing in the Catholic Church from a tolerance of the more radical activist posture of the late sixties and early seventies, to the more conservative and reflective Church of today...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Catholic Ministry at Harvard: The Rise and Fall of Vatican II | 4/23/1976 | See Source »

...candidate? For the first time in what had been a near faultless campaign to reach the White House, the candidate had stumbled badly. He had confidently fielded highly complex issues, from abortion to defense spending, yet he ignited a brushfire over race-just as white liberals were beginning to swing behind him and his broad support among blacks was being widely noted (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Candidate Carter: 1 Apologize' | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...have the most beautiful swing on the team," said freshman golfer Gene Purdy after firing a pacesetting 75 over the Concord Country Club, "It's like a slap shot, if you really want to know...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Lash Lord Jeffs and Jumbos | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...took me a couple holes to get into the swing of competition again," said McNealy, but he finished by hitting every green in regulation on the back nine. "It was probably the best nine holes I ever played from tee to green," he added...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Lash Lord Jeffs and Jumbos | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...chartered twin-engine Cessna, he flew 110 miles south to Americus and drove to his home town of Plains, arriving at nearly 2 a.m. He had been going for almost 20 hours. Wife Rosalynn had returned to Plains only a few hours earlier, having completed a separate campaign swing of her own to Kentucky. As he fell into bed that night. Jimmy Carter might have been forgiven by God and man if he had left his Bible in his suitcase and gone immediately to sleep. But he opened it again to II Corinthians and read from Chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Three Candidates on the Run | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

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