Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon, King called a mass meeting at theNew Pilgrim Baptist Church. Outside, Bull Connor massed 50 policemen and a fire truck with water pressure cranked up to 700 Ibs. When the crowd of 1,000 poured out of the church just before dusk, they lined up and marched toward the police. A police captain demanded their parade permit. They had none. Seeing the fire hoses, they knelt in silence as a Negro minister solemnly began to pray: "Let them turn their water on. Let them use their dogs. We are not leaving. Forgive them, O Lord." Suddenly, inexplicably...
...Herald: "I agree with those, and there are many, who will see him as a man who broke up a family in which there were four young children. As of here and now, I could not vote for him." Said the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Browne, president of the American Baptist Convention: "I am not sure that the standards of national life are helped very much by a public leader who, after he had broken up two families, says, "I'm very happy myself.' " In a biting editorial, Baltimore's weekly Catholic Review said: "The founder of Christianity...
...Presbyterian Church Constitution, which requires that persons divorced less than a year can be married only with special permission from the local presbytery. Happy was divorced from Dr. James Murphy in Idaho on April 1. Rocky from Mrs. Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller 14 months ago. Rockefeller is a Baptist; Happy, raised as an Episcopalian, recently became a Presbyterian. Both frequently attended Smith's interdenominational church in Pocantico Hills. Irrelevant? General press reaction was far less critical than that of the clergy. Many of the nation's newspaper editors seemed to agree with the New York Herald Tribune, which...
...lights came up on the curtainless stage of East Berlin's Komische Oper last week, and there, pregnant with portents of disaster, hung a textured moon that looked like a fly's swollen eye. A shock. When John the Baptist was pulled barefoot from his cistern prison, his long matted hair hung down to his animal skin sarong. Another shock. Then came Salome with her veils and her dances, and in a spirit perfectly suggested by the jewel stuck in her navel, she treated an earnest audience to a performance of Strauss's shocker that came straight...
Married. Virginia Leftwich ("Gigi") Graham, 17, eldest of Evangelist Billy Graham's five children; and Stephan Tchividjian, 23, son of Millionaire Financier Ara Tchividjian, the Baptist minister's most active Swiss supporter; in a religious ceremony (which followed by six days the mandatory Swiss civil ceremony) that was presided over by Graham, who also gave the bride away; in Montreux, Switzerland...