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Drafted into the Army during World War II, Abernathy used his G.I. bill to attend Alabama State College, graduating in 1950 with honors in sociology. He stayed on to teach history and counsel students, and took up preaching for $40 a Sunday at a tiny church in Demopolis. His gutbucket style gained him quick recognition, and in 1951 he was named pastor of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, where he also joined the N.A.A.C.P. He approached civil rights with the same intensity as he did the Bible. So it was not surprising that he got the first call...
...price for such concessions will come high, particularly for meeting the wage demands of the workers. At week's end the union leaders, meeting with Pompidou and employer representatives, had already won the promise of a 20% increase in France's minimum wage. The bill for that, and the subsequent rounds of inflation that a massive increase in purchasing power is bound to touch off, will almost certainly erode the value of the franc, might even lead ultimately to its devaluation...
...with wage-rise demands totaling more than a billion dollars. Among the demands: 3,000,000 heavy-machinery workers asking a 10% increase; 1,250,000 construction men seeking 15%, and 750,000 retail-distribution employees demanding 10%. To head off such damaging boosts, Wilson last week maneuvered his bill renewing wage and price controls through its decisive second reading in Commons. But it passed by only a narrow, grudging margin of 35 votes. The fact is, many Britons are simply not convinced that the way to maintain the competitive advantages of devaluation abroad is to hold the line...
...thing that seems reasonably certain is that the pulsars are not much larger than Earth and are 50 to 400 light-years away. Says Astrophysicist A.G.W. Cameron of Yeshiva University, the conference chairman: "It's going to be a damn hard job to make any theory fill the bill...
...time the Administration's anti-crime bill passed the Senate last week, it had grown and changed mightily. For one thing, the Senators had added a measure that would permit court-ordered wiretapping by federal and state authorities investigating almost any serious crime; federal authorities would not need a court order in emergency situations involving national security or organized crime. The legislators also authorized a ban on the mail-order sale of handguns, as well as $100 million in federal funds for local law enforcement. And, as many civil libertarians feared, the Senators voted to repeal some Supreme Court...