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Died. The Rev. John Haynes Holmes, 84, crusading churchman, longtime (1907-49) pastor of Manhattan's prestigious Unitarian-Universalist Community Church, who campaigned against capital punishment and corruption (he played a key role in dethroning New York's Mayor James J. Walker in 1932), worked for causes ranging from birth control to nuclear disarmament, helped found the American Civil Liberties Union and the N.A.A.C.P.; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Representatives from Boston civic groups, newspapers, police and the mayor's office clashed over questions involving police-community relations at a panel discussion in the Arlington Street Unitarian-Universalist Church last night...
...established a "J a c k i e Washington Fund" to pay court expenses. Among the other groups which have expressed interest in the Fund, though they have not yet affiliated with it, are the American Veterans Committee, the Catholic Interracial Council, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, the Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee and the Jewish Labor Committee...
Representing 17 churches and religious organizations, the observers encompass all major Christian groups except the Greek Orthodox, the fundamentalist sects and the Baptists.* Their churches range from the Russian Orthodox, which considers itself part of the Catholic Church, to the Unitarian Universalist. which does not acknowledge the divinity of Jesus Christ. At his "family gathering" for the non-Catholics last week, Cardinal Bea asked the observers to "grant us complete confidence and tell us very frankly everything you dislike, to share with us your positive criticisms, your suggestions and your desires...
...Board of Regents accepted the verdict, declared that the decision "is now the law of the land, and it will be so recognized by all school authorities in the state." Jewish religious leaders who commented on the decision were almost all favorable toward it. A group of 13 Unitarian Universalist ministers in New York City issued a statement declaring that the decision was not only constitutionally "sound'' but also "in the interest of religion.'' Said the Rev. William B. Sperry of Detroit's Episcopal Christ Church: "It is wrong for the churches to expect...