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...Palo Alto seven years later. High Churchman West has usually disagreed with the theological opinions of his bishop. Last winter, as part of a long-standing effort to get his parish to adopt tithing instead of rummage sales as a means of raising capital, West attacked some of his churchwomen from the pulpit. When the issue threatened to divide the parish, West resigned, to accept a calling as an assistant rector in Houston...
...unpaved streets lined with saloons, gambling halls and brothels. Among Sheriff Hayden's duties was one to enforce an ordinance requiring Indians from the Maricopa Reservation to wear pants, not breechclouts, while in town. Once, according to a story Hayden likes to tell, a group of churchwomen complained to him that an old Indian chief outside town had three wives; they demanded that the sheriff do something about it. Hayden went to see the chief, explained: "Under the white man's law you can only have one wife. Now you pick out the one wife you want...
...glen plaid suit and lemon shirt, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller went through one buoyant morning's routine in the State Capitol at Albany. He presided over a swearing-in, sat on the carpeted floor with delighted schoolchildren visitors, charmed a delegation of Methodist churchwomen. Cracked he, as a photographer posed a group portrait: "I have to be careful who I stand behind. My wife sees these pictures, you know." Amid the badinage, Nelson Rockefeller did not betray by so much as a flicker of an eye the fact that his reputation as a political leader hung...
...experts debated the question of whether to go on testing nuclear weapons, thousands of U.S. Protestant churchmen and churchwomen lined up last week on the stop-the-tests side. Items: ¶A widely assorted 140 Protestant clergymen and educators, including nine bishops, signed an appeal to all Christians to back up the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in its declaration against testing (TIME, Aug. 12). Among the signers: Methodist Bishops Charles W. Brashares of Chicago, Eugene M. Frank of St. Louis and John Wesley Lord of Boston; the Right Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, retired Episcopal Bishop...
...Rejected a move that would permit churchwomen to be seated in the House of Deputies...