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...DiPrete, 39, are similar down to the horn-rimmed glasses they both wear. Both are Roman Catholics, lawyers, fathers of three-and uninspiring campaigners. There was little to distinguish their views on most issues. Neither announced a stand on Viet Nam until an independent "peace" candidate, Unitarian Universalist Minister Albert Perry, forced them into a choice (Perry got 2.7% of the vote). Tiernan came out in full support of the Johnson Administration. DiPrete at first favored a suspension of U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam, then-realizing that he was losing votes thereby-backtracked and declared that he was "flexible...
This summer, in such diverse settings as a Universalist church on Cape Cod, a 16th century hacienda near Taxco, Mexico, and a leafy glade on the shores of California's Lake Arrowhead, hundreds of amateur U.S. musicians are taking part in a series of workshops. Their subject: advanced noodling. Their instrument: the recorder, a kind of glorified penny whistle with a pedigree...
...Eastern Michigan's progress is the cooperation among the eight judges. Led by Chief Judge Levin, who is Jewish, the court is a diverse group that includes four Roman Catholics, two Protestants and a Unitarian Universalist-Judge Wade McCree Jr., a Negro whom many consider to be the most likely of his race, after Thurgood Marshall, to reach the Supreme Court. If he does, he will take with him some exceptional experience in the art of keeping cases moving. So efficient is the Eastern Michigan court that the backlog on its docket is just about the smallest...
Adams placed the Unitarian-Universalist Association, the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Council of Churches on record in support of a bill which would allow judicial review of the constitutionality of certain federal grants of loans to religious institutions. The bill would give taxpayers the right to challenge federal spending acts...
Recently, a "Clergymen's Emergency Committee for Vietnam," representing 3,000 Protestant, Jewish and Roman Catholic clerics, sent twelve of its members on a "ministry of reconciliation" to Viet Nam. Among the delegates were Unitarian Universalist President Dana McLean Greeley; Baptist Minister Edwin T. Dahlberg, a former president of the National Council of Churches; and the Rev. Harold Bosley, pastor of Manhattan's Christ Methodist Church. On returning, the clerics proposed an immediate peace conference, including both Communist China and the National Liberation Front (meaning the Viet Cong...