Word: abyssinians
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...grumbles about the high cost of everything from restaurant food to taxi fares. But he freely pays thousands for such hobbies as his private art museum (Rubens, Titian, Gainsborough, and perhaps the best U.S. collection of Louis XV and XVI furniture) and the zoo (four buffalo, two bears, an Abyssinian mountain goat), adjoining the Malibu home he has not visited in five years...
Lamont Dupont, the original and most lavish hoax, combines heady extravagance with a condescending democracy toward classmates. He "enjoys the sport of kings--falconry"; he has been seen, according to posters, at the Abyssinian royal ball, the Jamaican government congress, and other aristocratic functions. Voting against him is futile since "he owns us all anyway," but freshmen should give him their ballots since "he has condescended...
...center and right of some issues. But three inescapable facts emerged from Powell's switch: 1) Lightly as Negro intellectuals may regard Powell, he is a politician of indisputable influence. He has served six consecutive House terms, is pastor of one of Harlem's biggest churches (the Abyssinian Baptist, with 9,500 members), and, above all, has a demonstrated talent for bypassing the intellectuals and communicating directly with the Negro man-in-the street. 2) His ill-fated Powell Amendment to the school-construction bill (no federal money for segregated schools) and his battle for its adoption during...
...special day has been described by Powell as a day for prayers "for the deliverance of all who suffer persecution and for the salvation of all who are afflicted with racial prejudice." Powell, a Negro, is also an Abyssinian Baptist minister...
Seated side by side in the House Education and Labor Committee room were New York's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church in his spare time, and West Virginia's Democratic Representative Cleveland Bailey, who preaches the gospel pretty much according to John L, Lewis. Under discussion was the $1.6 billion school-construction program and Powell's attempt to amend it so as to bar funds to any school district that practices segregation...