Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Celebrated Congresswoman from Texas ... Possible Attorney General or U.N. Ambassador . . . Age 40 . . . Commanding presence and great, bell-like voice . . . Daughter of a Houston Baptist preacher . . . Debating champ at Texas Southern University; graduated magna cum laude, 1956 . . . LL.B. from Boston University Law School, 1959 . . . Practiced civil law until entering politics in 1966 . . . Shrewd and moderate . . . In 1973 became first black woman ever sent to Congress from South . . . Won national acclaim on House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment hearings . . . Team player: loyally supports conservative Democrats when called...
...zoning board in a three to two split, voted on November 18 to evict the group from the Old Cambridge Baptist Church because theaters are prohibited in the residential zone where the church is located, Jack Drummey, an official in the Cambridge public relations office, said yesterday...
Michael Novak, a graduate student in history, is used to hearing kind words about his latest article or his recently published insights into Catholicism. But Novak says he does not write articles and his studies of Baptist history leave him little time to think about the Roman Church. Novak shares the name of a prominent Catholic theologian and journalist who recently studied at Harvard...
Jimmy Carter's first real post-election test has come in, of all places, his home town of Plains. There, at his country-plain, white Baptist church-a setting all the more dramatic because of its small scale-he had to resolve a controversy that threatened to tarnish his Presidency before it began. The issue: whether blacks would be permitted to join the church. After a membership meeting last Sunday, equality-and Jimmy-emerged as winners; the congregation voted to end race restrictions...
Actually Hooks, who is in fact an ordained Baptist minister, will need all his preaching abilities in his new job. The N.A.A.C.P. is in grave danger of becoming nothing more than an honored anachronism. The very fact that for the first six months of 1977 it will have not one but two heads-Hooks and Wilkins-is a symptom of its deep malaise. Wilkins, 75, has even accused some members of the N.A.A.C.P.'s governing board of conducting a "campaign of vilification" to get rid of him. For the sake of appearances, the board allowed him to stay-along...