Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have noted Moyers' capacity for absorbing a blistering rebuke from Johnson with the clinical detachment of a volcanologist measuring an eruption. He can do so because he is uncommonly sure of himself. There is an easy communion between the two men. Johnson kiddingly refers to Moyers as "mah Baptist preacher." Moyers, who was ordained to become a teacher, not a preacher, kids Lyndon right back. As the President tells the story, Moyers one day was saying grace before a White House dinner in such a low voice that he could hardly be heard. "Speak up, Bill!" bellowed Lyndon. "Speak...
Louisiana-born, Irish Baptist McCormack will need his charm and know-how at Comsat. The corporation is busy with plans to link its communications system with an Apollo satellite to be orbited next year by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and to offer Pacific communication similar to Early Bird's European hookup. After that will come a new generation of Comsat satellites that will provide worldwide links with stations in at least 45 countries. On the ground, Comsat is embroiled in arguments. Television networks are unhappy about Comsat's high rates ($5,245 an hour in prime...
Before the President was wheeled off to the operating room, Moyers-an ordained Baptist minister-led Lyndon, Lady Bird and Daughter Luci in prayers. Then, down corridors guarded by somber marines and Secret Service men, the President was moved to the 40-ft-by-20-ft. operating room, with Moyers trotting alongside. Three Secret Service men in surgical masks and gowns scrutinized the operation. A fourth guarded the door of the operating room, while others were positioned throughout the building. The operation went as smoothly as anyone could have hoped, even to the removal of a ragged ¼-in. kidney...
Through the town, past the courthouse, the park and the ramshackle houses of the Negro quarter, is the Friendship Baptist Church. There I found myself on a hot Sunday afternoon last July...
...their favorite nocturnal rendezvous. There has been much grumbling from those who have found themselves confronted in the dark of night with the likes of Barbara Hepworth's looming Sea Form, which looks like a shield with holes in it, or Pablo Gargallo's St. John the Baptist, a strident bronze whose every jutting piece stands ready to gore the unwary lover...