Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plot. All society activity comes under the firm thumb of a balding, deceptively mild-mannered, retired businessman from Belmont. Mass., named Robert Welch. Son of a North Carolina farmer. Baptist Welch, 61, spent 25 years as an executive with Cambridge's famed candymaking James O. Welch Co. (run by his brother). After the war, Welch began to bone up on Communist literature; eventually he decided that such schemes as social security and federal income tax laws were part of a Red plot to ready the U.S. for Soviet conquest. Welch left candy for fulltime anti-Communist pamphleteering...
...continued his blooper-blemished barnstorm through Africa, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs G. Mennen Williams at long last heard a soothing theme amid the contrapuntal catcalls. At a Baptist mission 60 miles south of Leopoldville. a choir of Congolese schoolboys serenaded him with a painstaking rendition of Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen. Soapy joined the chorus...
...Sumter, S.C., local and state police mustered in regimental proportions to block the path of angry Negro students at Morris College (Baptist) who intended to march downtown protesting the earlier arrest of seven students and one faculty member. After a tense impasse when patrol cars twice stopped the marchers at campus gates, the students dispersed...
Powell's Abyssinian Baptist Church. On hand to lead the obeisances were Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, eleven Congressmen, A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Walter Reuther's brother...
Born. To the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 32, softspoken, strong-willed Baptist minister who led Montgomery, Ala. Negroes in the 1956 fight to integrate the city's bus line, and Coretta King, 33; their third child, second son; in Atlanta...