Word: rev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graying, former college basketball star, the Rev. Louis Gigante is no stranger to conflict. The Roman Catholic priest once broke up a city council meeting to protest official indifference toward his impoverished, crime-ridden parish in the South Bronx. He has picketed FBI offices to object to, among other things, identification of his brother Vincent as a Mafia soldier. Now Gigante is engaged in another battle. With the grudging acquiescence of his archbishop, New York's "fighting priest" is running for Congress. "People tell you all the time that a priest should not be a candidate, and they...
...four young Washington lawyers inspired by some of Nader's efforts. One of the proposals would have added three "public representatives" to the corporation's 23-man board. The nominees: Environmentalist Dr. Rene Dubos; Betty Furness, who was Lyndon Johnson's consumer adviser; and the Rev. Channing Phillips, who would have been the first black ever to sit on G.M.'s board. The second proposal would have created a Shareholders' Committee for Corporate Responsibility, authorized to spend one year investigating and increasing the company's contributions "to the social welfare of the nation...
Other senior tutors who are stepping down are: Joel M. Porte, professor of English, Quincy House; Rustam Z. Kothavala, lecturer on Geology, Lowell House; Rev. Robert W. Haney '65, Adams House: and acting senior tutor John W. Hutchinson '28, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Dudley House...
expanding the GM Board of Directors to include three representatives of the public. Campaign GM has nominated Betty Furness, special consumer consultant to President Johnson; Rene Dubos, Pulitzer Prize winning environmentalist; and Rev. Channing Phillips, Washington evil rights leader...
...rumored plot, both men -former Agriculture Minister Neil Blaney and ex-Finance Minister Charles Haughey-flatly denied any involvement. In any event, disclosure of the gunrunning story heightened Protestant fears of a Catholic plot to take over Ulster and strengthened the hand of such right-wingers as the Rev. Ian Paisley. To appalled moderates on both sides of the Irish border, this seemed to promise renewed religious strife in the North this summer...