Word: chapelful
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ticket in politically touchy North Carolina; he is trusted by the South; and he is respected and liked by the U.S. business community. An old pro with young ideas, Hodges is the Methodist son of a dirt-poor tenant farmer. He worked his way through the state university at Chapel Hill, spent 17 years with the Marshall Field & Co. textile empire. where he became a vice president, before taking his first political step in 1952. Then, on a friend's advice, he ran for lieutenant governor, won with surprising ease. Two years later, Governor William Umstead died...
...influx has reached the point where organized aid must replace warm hearts and individual assistance. A year ago, the Miami diocese of the Roman Catholic Church pioneered with .practical help-La $75,000 Catholic Latin Center staffed with four priests and four nuns, and with a nursery, clinic, chapel, adult education school to teach English. Last October a permanent Citizens Committee was organized and now there is a Cuban Refugee Emergency Employment Center with six bilingual interviewers. The Rockefeller Foundation donated $10,000 to the Catholic Latin Center for immediate aid, and the International Rescue Committee, veteran of the Hungarian...
...than 1,500 students. Almost all require the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test; many also demand the Achievement Tests and sometimes the new "Writing Sample." Few have application deadlines, though all advise early applications. Most were church-founded, and though direct church control is rare nowadays, many still require chapel and religion courses. Liberal education is the primary task at hand, not religious indoctrination. About half the professors in each hold doctorates-well above the national average. Big universities, when raiding small campuses for staff, tend to steal researchers. The schools listed are largely pure teaching institutions, a boon...
...missions in five Latin American countries, Smith could be well satisfied with what he saw. Working without pay and under primitive conditions, Brazil's 267 Mormon missionaries have won 30,000 converts, expect to baptize 2,000 more within the next six months, will open a large, modern chapel in bustling São Paulo this winter...
...florid-faced six-footer with crew-cut silver hair and bushy eyebrows, Riou rises with the predawn peal of his chapel bells, works a 17-hour day. He finds time to preach an hour-long sermon in Creole each Sunday. "Here all goes well," he wrote a friend recently. "Patients, as usual, are numerous." To Haitians, Father Riou is a "bon blanc"-good white...