Word: va
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...demand for the altar-centered church. In 1942 Roman Catholic St. Mark's in Burlington, Vt. experimented with placing the sanctuary with altar at the crossing of nave and transepts, thus making it visible from three sides. In 1948 the Episcopalians at St. Clement's in Alexandria, Va. placed the altar facing banks of pews. Rector Darby Wood Betts argued that "the Church is first and foremost a family called into being by its Father which is God. Therefore we sit facing one another, rather than looking at the back of one another's heads as does...
...wanted was a sandwich and a cup of tea while his bus made a brief stop in Richmond, Va. But Bruce Boynton, a law student at Washington's Negro Howard University, wanted to eat his snack in the white section of the bus terminal's segregated lunchroom. A restaurant official ordered Boynton to leave, and when Boynton declined, called the cops. Boynton was fined $10 in police court, and his conviction was upheld by Virginia's Supreme Court...
Ever since he became a civilian, Eatherly has been in and out of hospitals and in and out of trouble. Back home in Texas, he was picked up a couple of times for forgery. Then he was arrested for theft and sent to a VA hospital in Waco for treatment. When he got out, he tried robbing post offices and breaking into a drive-in grocery. Always, his war record got him off and he was sent back to the hospital for further treatment. But this fall the ex-pilot walked out of the Waco hospital once more...
...nine Houses to serve with previously elected Class Marshals on the Class Committee. Those selected were Roger A. Snyder, of Adams and Upper Derby, Pa.; John T. Daley, of Dudley and West Roxbury; Richard K. Ellingboe, of Dunster and Wilmington, Del.; Douglas E. Buie, of Kirkland and Norfolk, Va.; Christopher Gale, of Eliot and Webster Groves, Mo.; Larry J. Hohit, of Leverett and Greenwood, Ind.; Thomas H. Moss, of Lowell and Cleveland, Ohio; Claude E. Welch of Quincy and Belmont; and Eliot T. Putnam, Jr., of Winthrop and Dedham...
...baiting ("the despotic power of those 'royal families' which control large industries") to business-boosting (as counsel to Ford Motor Co., Transamerica Corp.) and wound up a vehement opponent of labor-union "monopolies," social security, public housing, integration, minimum wage laws; of a heart attack; in Charlottesville, Va...