Word: zion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting more pay and prefer it that way; they would rather have cash in the pants pocket than 10% off on the pants. Moreover, they increasingly find the "clerical discount" demeaning. "I used to use a railroad discount," says the Rev. George Reck, pastor of Houston's Zion Lutheran Church, "but I always felt the conductor was saying to himself, 'Here's another chiseler.'" And chiseling can work two ways, suggests Father George McCormick of Trinity Episcopal Church in Miami: "When I'm offered a 10% dis count, I feel that the price has been...
Also at yesterday's meeting, Robert Zion '42, landscaping architect for the new study center, presented his plans to the trustees...
...center will be surrounded by every imaginable type of foliage, from wisteria-covered bowers to a forest of birch trees. In the middle of the forest, Zion intends to put an artificial twelve-foot waterfall...
Then the coffin was paraded to the drab Zion Methodist Church in Marion, where King offered the dubious consolation: "There is an amazing democracy about death." Cried King: "Farewell, Jimmie! You died that all of us could vote, and we are going to vote." King also pushed his Selma registration drive through its seventh grinding week. In pouring rain, he led 350 Negroes to the courthouse, where Sheriff Jim Clark was, as usual, standing resolutely...
...Marion, three days after King's departure, that some of the worst civil rights violence in months broke out. About 400 Negroes started to march from the Zion Methodist Church to the town jail, protesting the arrest of a fellow worker. Waiting outside the church were eight Marion cops, 50 state troopers, a bunch of redneck bums-and Selma's Sheriff Clark, in civilian clothes but carrying a billy club...