Word: rev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Father confessor to three decades of celebrities, the Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, 77, told Television Interviewer Bill Meyers that what troubles him most about the U.S. is the "loss of objective standards" and the disappearance of the discipline that once made America great. Where can one still find discipline in our society? "As Coach Madden of the Oakland Raiders once said to me," Sheen reported, "it is left only in the professional football team...
...REV.) R.G. HARLOFF Dallas...
...Another Jesuit, the Rev. John McLaughlin, joined the White House staff...
...face is thinner than that of the order's founder, but his high, broad forehead and strong nose bear the same Basque imprint. It is an open face, quick to smile. "He is optimistic by disease," says one colleague. But the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe has reason to be optimistic. He is a survivor of a cataclysm next to which the problems of his Jesuits must instantly pale. As rector of a Jesuit novitiate in wartime Japan, he was in Nagatsuka, a suburb of Hiroshima, on Aug. 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb struck. "Arrupe," says a Jesuit associate...
...Driver Bobby Allison for winning the pole position. At 1:52 p.m. Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver's door, which, for safety reasons, is welded shut. At 2 p.m. the starter says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." The 30 drivers rev up their 500-h.p.-plus monsters, creating a thunder that pierces the cotton stuffed in drivers' ears. After two laps, the pace car pulls away, the flag is dropped and the race...