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...pamphlet urges: "Don't let them lynch our citizens; Don't let them rock the ark of prosperity." It calls Stevenson and Sparkman "friends of Negroes, Jews, Catholics, and Protestants...
Evans even dared attack the ark of the Socialist covenant-the notion that wages can be increased indefinitely by cutting into business profits. In Britain, said Evans, this "simply isn't true. Let us be honest. Broadly, the position today is that we all pay each other's wages." Higher wages inevitably mean higher prices: "How far can we go on this road before we are continually engaged in chasing each other's tails...
...Negro sharecropper in Gallion, La., light-skinned Theodore Roe got no schooling and was pushed into the world without a nickel. But Ted was luckier than a gallon of Fast Dice Oil. Fate led him to Little Rock, Ark., where he did odd jobs for a tailor and learned to sew. With this education, he pushed on to Chicago and went to work for a Negro tailor named Edward P. Jones. And that put Lucky Ted on the express escalator to Easy Street...
...riverside near Vicksburg, Miss, one morning last week, Evangelist Billy Graham stepped up to a platform, lifted his eyes to heaven, and blessed a 200-ft. converted LSM (Landing Ship, Medium) and its crew. This week the ship, known around Vicksburg as "The Ark of LeTourneau," will cast off and nose out into the muddy Mississippi. Its cargo consists of $500,000 worth of heavy earthmoving, lumbering and land-clearing machinery, food supplies for a year, 500 New Testaments and a dozen "technical missionaries." Its destination: Liberia...
Father Andrei Moldovan, a priest of the Rumanian Orthodox Church,* said goodbye to his Akron congregation one day in 1950; he was leaving, he told them, for a vacation in Hot Springs, Ark. Actually, Father Moldovan hustled off to Communist Rumania, got himself consecrated bishop of the Rumanian communion in the U.S., then returned to the U.S. to claim his title. Last week, to the satisfaction of most of his 55,000 fellow churchmen, a Cleveland federal court told Moldovan he had no right to the title...