Word: rev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real problem of violence in America." Or "Laugh-In" comedian Pat Paulsen's short-lived write-in campaign. Remember Sam Yorty's 1972 New Hampshire bid? No one else does. Last time around, another gaggle of absurdist candidates spiced the winter grind: Stanley "Vote Alphabetically" Arnold (290 votes), the Rev. Arthur "We need to put Jesus Christ back into politics" Blessit (886 votes, or 1 per cent), Robert L. "Elect the Last President and Give America Parliamentary Government" Kelleher (113 votes), and the anti-Communist ticket of Billy Joe Clegg and Auburn Lee Pack-wood of Springfield, Mo. (188 votes...
...Middle East Panel is headed by the Rev. Tracey K. Jones Jr., general secretary of the Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church, the most important agency in the N.C.C.'s largest member body. Last October Jones' agency went on record favoring P.L.O. participation in peace talks as "the representative" of the Palestinians. But Jones conveyed an air of fair-mindedness as he steered the Washington hearings, which broke no new ground...
...officials who finally managed to bring the Games back to Lake Placid admit that they did not know what they were getting into. The area had world-class skiing slopes, but no support facilities for the Games and no idea of how to go about building them. Says the Rev. Bernard Fell, an ebullient former policeman who is president of the Lake Placid Organizing Committee: "None of us were trained in managing a construction project or picking a contractor. We didn't even know there had to be environmental impact studies, and they've cost us three-quarters...
...right-wing organizations in the United States-the Liberty Lobby, the Rev. Carl McIntire's Twentieth Century Reformation Hour, the Rev. Billy James Hargis's Manion Forum-Welch managed to build the only one with a broad base of popular support. The John Birch Society quickly jumped to about 50,000 members, and John F. McManus, director of public relations, says membership since then has remained between...
...goes well, says the Rev. Gerald F. Moede of Princeton, N.J., the COCU general secretary, the separate denominations will ratify a polished-up version of the pacts on doctrine and ministries by 1986, then formally recognize one another's members and clergy by the end of the decade. Those steps may be followed by gradual amalgamation of the churches and their multifarious agencies, which Moede thinks might take 40 years...