Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus somewhat of a surprise when Moyers announced last week that he will leave the White House, after 17 grueling months as the President's public voice and private confidant, to become publisher of Long Island's prosperous newspaper Newsday (circ. 415,000). Ordained a Baptist teacher, he has been with Johnson ever since he joined his Senate staff in 1959 after graduating from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Moyers won the trust and liking of the hypercritical Washington press corps after he took over from the ailing George Reedy in 1965. Like everyone else, he did not find...
...Welfare decided to cut off all fed eral funds from six segregated school districts in Arkansas, Mississippi and South Carolina, bringing to 37 the number deprived of financial assistance in Old Confederacy states. It also is terminating aid, mostly student-loan and construction funds, to South Carolina's Baptist-run Anderson College, making it the first institution of higher learning to have its federal funds...
...Dallas'Parkland Memorial Hospital after surgery to remove a cancerous lymph node from his chest; Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 66, recovering in London's King Edward VIFs Hospital following an unspecified abdominal operation; Joseph P. Kennedy, 78, resting in Boston's New England Baptist Hospital after an operation to remove lesions from his chest; and Actress Sina Lollobrigida, 38, feeling much better following treatment in Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital for severe intestinal inflammation that resulted, she said, from eating an unwashed apple in Mexico...
...Santa Croce, where the depth of the water averaged 25 feet, the famous Cimabue Crucifix was submerged and almost completely destroyed, the Domenico Veneziano fresco of St. John the Baptist and St. Francis was streaked with heating oil, as were the Tadeo Gaddi Last Supper and other frescoes, including the important fragments by Orcagna. The Bacchus, the Brutus and Pitti Madonna of Michelangelo in the Bargello Museum were also badly streaked with...
...They also point to the progress made by institutions of other conservative churches that have been willing to accept federal money. A case in point is Tennessee's struggling Belmont College, founded in 1951, which refuses all federal aid and is kept alive by doles from the state Baptist convention. In plant and personnel, Belmont cannot compare with nearby David Lipscomb College, supported by the Churches of Christ, which took in more than $6,000,000 in federal funds during 1965 alone...