Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carters and a few other U.S. officials dropped in on the Israeli delegation for what was expected to be a brief courtesy call. Both the President and Rosalynn wound up staying two hours, singing sabbath songs and eating a kosher meal catered from Washington. Sunday, after Carter attended Baptist services at the camp, he gave Begin and Sadat a tour of the battlefield at Gettysburg...
...case any spiritual fervor may be lacking, McCurdy has had an outfit of nine runners training religiously at the Grottonwood (Mass.) Baptist Camp since September...
...apartment on Exchange Street where the family lived. When they stop at Humes High School, Diane says: "Can't you just imagine a 16-year-old Elvis walking through the doors every day in a pink shirt with those blue eyes?" They can indeed. And they stop at Baptist Memorial Hospital, where Presley was pronounced dead...
...rally is in a Chicago ghetto school; the cheerleader is none other than the Rev. Jesse Jackson (he was ordained as a Baptist minister). His style is a combination of razzle-dazzle and Southern revival meeting. But the message is a very basic version of the old Protestant work ethic: work hard and aim high. In corridors where punks push dope, Jackson pushes hope. Project EXCEL, a tough self-help regimen for students and parents alike, which reached 21 schools in Chicago, Los Angeles and Kansas City during this past school year, is turning the old ghetto battle...
Convention, the National Baptist Convention and, this week, to the National Education Association convention in Dallas, Jackson misses no opportunity to argue the need for a return to traditional values. "Only by re-establishing moral authority-that is, our believability, our trustworthiness, our caring-can we demand discipline and have it perceived as therapy and not punishment," declares Jackson...