Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bill Moyers, 29, a scholarly journalism graduate whom Johnson calls "my Baptist preacher" (he was never a preacher but was ordained to teach in Baptist schools), has become the intellectual commander of the Johnson troops. He assigns the speeches, writes some himself, checks them for tone and accuracy. He plans Johnson's trips, such as his recent poverty tours, sends out advance men, coordinates it all with the President's desires...
While the Presbyterians held their leadership in church integration, two of the nation's big Baptist churches also grappled with the race issue-one forthrightly, the other with considerable caution. Last week the Southern Baptists (10,395,940 members) and their northern cousins, the American Baptists (1,559,103), held their annual conferences in separate rooms of Atlantic City's Convention Hall, and joined with five other groups for a three-day celebration of the Baptist Jubilee...
Traditionally opposed to racial segregation in both theory and practice, the American Baptist delegates approved their church's strongest stand yet on civil rights. Their resolution advocated withholding church loans to segregated Baptist congregations, and putting fair-employment-practice clauses in all contracts between churches and builders. But the Southern Baptists, about 90% of whose congregations are segregated, rejected even mild, nonbinding recommendations that would approve an open-door policy on race in churches. Instead, the delegates adopted a policy statement that left the question of church integration right where it has always been: up to the decision...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. Something for everyone: Rembrandt's paintings and prints; Raphael's long-lost drawing of Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist; Wedgwood's revolutionary creamware; English jugs transfer-printed with American heroes and history; the architectural fantasies of previous world's fairs; Dutch, Flemish and French paintings...
...Biggest: the 10,395,940-member Southern Baptist Convention...