Word: rev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrations. In Ulster, parades are both extremely popular and the cause of sectarian clashes. The decree infuriated Catholics-at week's end they staged two protest marches halted by troops using tear gas -as well as Protestants. "The government has capitulated to the policy of terror!" cried the Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of many militant Protestants. "The I.R.A. has won." There were some suggestions that the I.R.A., for its part, might try a new tactic by organizing illegal parades of Catholics to test the ban and the government's will. The result might well mean more bloody clashes...
...Episcopal magazine maintains. The Living Church, an independent, conservative-leaning weekly, bases its argument on last month's antiwar rally of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, held in the cathedral with the permission of New York's Episcopal Bishop Coadjutor, the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore Jr. A church should not be used for "partisan political gatherings," remonstrates the magazine in an editorial, citing the availability of "Dump Nixon" pamphlets at the rally. What is more, the magazine complains, the crowds smoked, left beer cans in the pews, and even included a man with slit...
Then came the dramatic nomination and withdrawal of Julian Bond at the Democratic convention. It was at this same convention that the Rev. Channing Phillips was nominated for President--thus becoming the first black person nominated for the top-post endorsement by a major party--and received 67 and one half votes in the roll-call...
With the efflorescence of the civil rights movement in recent years, increasing interest has arisen in putting forth black Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates. In 1960, the Independent Afro-American Party ran the Rev. Clennon King for President, but he received only 1500 votes. In 1964, the Socialist Workers Party ran its first black Presidential candidate, Clifton DeBerry, who won some 28,500 votes. (The all-black Freedom Now Party of that year fielded 39 candidates for federal and local offices, but none for the two top national posts...
...season against the St. Louis Cardinals. In the first quarter Staubach fired a 75-yd. touchdown pass, and the Cowboys were never headed as they won 24-3. Off and on over the next two seasons, Coach Landry, a Methodist minister known to his players as the "Rev. T.L.," alternated Staubach and Morton as the starting quarterbacks. After...