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Word: baptiste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faced the six prelates* in a scene that, despite its greater intimacy, could only be reminiscent of John F. Kennedy's 1960 appearance before Protestant ministers in Houston, Southern Baptist Carter reiterated his familiar position. He believes abortion to be morally wrong and opposes it except in cases where a mother's life is threatened or she is a rape victim. At the same time, he does not favor constitutional amendments that would either ban abortions or give the states the right to decide the matter. Under the scrutiny of the bishops, however, Carter wavered. He agreed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Flare-Up Over Abortion | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...have voted overwhelmingly for the party of F.D.R. and the New Deal. With Carter's popularity among blacks at 83% in the latest Gallup poll, this year promises to be no different. Blacks are drawn to Carter by his fair treatment of them as Governor of Georgia, his Baptist evangelicalism, which echoes their own language of love and trust, the presence of several high-ranking blacks in his campaign, and his support of programs like welfare reform and national health insurance. In particular, with unemployment among blacks running at 19% in urban ghettos, the jobs issue works strongly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Battling for the Blocs | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

EVANGELICALS. Catholics and Jews may be wary of Carter's Southern Baptist religion, but it makes him enormously attractive to the country's 40 million evangelical Protestants (30 million of whom are white). They are heavily concentrated in 17 Southern and Border states but also have considerable strength in the Midwest. Conservative by nature, white evangelicals have tended in recent presidential elections to vote Republican, according to an analysis in the evangelical fortnightly Christianity Today. Carter's down-home appeal has scrambled the evangelicals' loyalty, as was demonstrated by their heavy vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Battling for the Blocs | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...what's good for General Motors really is good for America," whooped Lyndon Johnson over the telephone in January 1971. He was congratulating the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, pastor of the 6,000-member Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, who had just been chosen as the first black to sit on General Motors' 23-member board of directors. Sullivan's election was widely regarded-not least by Sullivan himself-as an important test of the idea that a black presence in the board room could make a giant corporation more sensitive to the needs of minorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIRECTORS: The Black on GM's Board | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...state supreme court seat. They were wrong-in a Texas-size way. Houston Attorney Donald B. Yarbrough, 35, won because too many voters apparently failed to notice that he lacked two prerequisites: a second o in his surname and, more important, qualifications-liberal or otherwise. A born-again Baptist, Yarbrough attributes his victory to God's will. Says he: "I can't take credit for it. I lay it all before the feet of Jesus Christ." His opponent, San Antonio Civil Appeals Chief Judge Charles Barrow, has a more mundane explanation: "It's just that name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Name's the Thing | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

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