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...unworldly show, but not all of his views sit easily with members of the diocese. In a column written for the weekly Inland Register, Topel once addressed the topic "Black Is Beautiful" and ended by giving three reasons he might like to be black himself. An irritated parishioner thereupon dropped off a box of black shoe polish. The bishop laughed. And, no doubt, joyfully applied the blacking to the dead priest's shoes. - Jane Estes
...Thereupon, O'Neill and Majority Leader James Wright of Texas moved in. They played on Sisk's reluctance to be seen as the man who killed the energy bill and promised to fix problems of water reclamation and supply in his district. When the vote was taken again on Friday, it was 9 to 5 in favor of a single bill, with Sisk voting in the majority and two other Representatives in effect abstaining. A few hours later, the House went along with the committee by the narrowest of margins...
...White House. Wearing a white karate suit and carrying his well-thumbed Bible, he scrambled over the fence from Pennsylvania Avenue and managed to scamper 15 yards onto the White House lawn before being met by at least eight Secret Service agents and uniformed guards. Thereupon the slightly built, 35-year-old gate crasher whipped out a three-inch knife from his Bible and slashed one officer's face and another's arm. Wielding long billy clubs like cattle prods, the guards warily circled Henry, poked the knife out of his hand and forced him to the ground...
...prepared to run for Governor. His seemingly sure election in 1974 was snatched out of his hands: he had won the Democratic nomination but the state supreme court ruled him off the ballot for not meeting South Carolina's five-year residency requirement for gubernatorial candidates. Ravenel thereupon antagonized many party regulars by refusing to support his replacement on the ticket, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, who lost...
...named Luciani Patriarch of Venice,* one of the most prestigious posts in the Italian church. Four years later came the red hat of Cardinal. In Venice, a vast archdiocese that numbered 3.6 million Catholics, he forthrightly declared that "the true treasures of the church are the poor." He thereupon authorized the clergy to dispose of church gold and jewels to raise funds to aid the handicapped...