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Criticizing the Gulf Oil Corporation's involvement in the Portuguese colony of Angola, the United Presbyterian Church has introduced four proposals on the Gulf proxy statement...
When practical jokes palled, there were a myriad of other diversions: canasta and cribbage, songfests with Sisto and Douglass on guitars, jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, model building, knitting, reading and a discothèque. Baer, a devout Presbyterian, read his Bible a great deal when not poring over his notes on the testimony. A few, like Sisto, were genuinely enthralled by the enforced camaraderie. As he put it later: "I miss the friendship. I always felt like I could go knock on someone's door and talk any time of the day or night, just like when...
Novelist Buechner (A Long Day's Dying) was ordained a Presbyterian minister and served for a time as chaplain of a boys' prep school. It may be that this professionalism allows him his easy way with the rigors of belief. Without satire or solemnity, he describes Bebb's religion-a life force as sleazy as its peddler. Bebb is, among other things, a sexual exhibitionist, and there is a memorable scene at the altar of his cinderblock church in which he restores potency to an oil-rich old Indian by raising up his own loins in thanksgiving...
...Robert F. Goheen coolly announced that he was going to become president of Princeton University. Born in India, the son of a Presbyterian medical missionary, he then swept (cum laude) through Princeton's feeder prep school, Lawrenceville. He worked his way through Princeton selling football tickets, graduated in 1940 with the school's top honor prize. After earning his doctorate (thesis: "The Imagery of Sophocles' Antigone") at Princeton, he joined the faculty and became head of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program, which aids future college teachers. When Princeton's trustees began looking for a new president...
...Crimson meets Florida Presbyterian in the Saturday opener and then begins a series of double-headers with Buffalo, Tampa, South Florida, and Pairfield, all in St. Petersburg, Fla. Before returning north, Harvard has an important Eastern League game at Navy and a doubleheader at Penn...