Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many a U.S. community, stocky Curtis Bryant, 44, would be considered a model citizen. A crane operator for the Illinois Central Railroad, he is head of his union local, a Baptist Sunday school teacher and deacon, a Boy Scout committee chairman. But he is also president of his county's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-and that, in McComb, Miss, (pop. 12,020), can apparently be enough to put a man behind bars...
...Fort Worth's Texas Christian nurses a traditional, geographic hatred of Dallas' Southern Methodist, and the two state schools-Texas and Texas A. & M. -have been slugging it out since 1894. But some of the wildest moments in conference history have been produced by the rivalry between Baptist Baylor and Methodist S.M.U. Arkansas Coach Frank Broyles was an assistant at Baylor in 1947, assigned to the spotting phone in the press box during the S.M.U. game. A few minutes before half time, Broyles left his seat to join the team in the dressing room. As he emerged from...
...lukewarm critical reception, Harrison announced that he would abandon Nigel Dennis' August for the People by mid-month. Among the lesser troupers who will be made jobless by Harrison's decision was the gifted actress who portrayed his mistress Rachel Roberts, 33, daughter of a Welsh Baptist minister and favored traveling companion of aspiring knight bachelor Harrison...
...pair of Protestant nuns from Darmstadt, members of an order that works with the Jews in repentance for Germany's crimes against them, who fasted on Yom Kippur and read selections from the Jewish prayer book. ¶ A Baptist minister, the Rev. Dwight Baker, who was worried about whether to encourage a group of Baptist converts from Judaism in their desire to continue obeying Jewish laws while still believing that Jesus was the Messiah...
...Harvard-bred son of Liberia's President; and Wokie Rosalind Tolbert, 23, pretty, English-educated daughter of Liberian Vice President William Tolbert; at Bensonville, Liberia, in a ceremony performed by (among other clergymen) the father of the bride, who doubles as pastor of the local Zion Praise Baptist Church...