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...whose father and mother were among three U.S. Baptist missionary families at Nsona Mpangu, 160 miles from Leopoldville. "They made them lie on the ground and marched all over them.'' Yet again and again, the missionaries reported, African Christians risked their own lives to protect their white brethren...
...Passed resolutions in favor of religious liberty, disarmament with inspection safeguards and foreign aid ("We call upon the nations of the world to be their brothers' keeper"). U.S. Southern Baptists joined their brethren in backing racial equality. The congress also proclaimed a worldwide Crusade for Bible Study and a year of Worldwide Evangelistic Emphasis...
...suburbanites, more than their urban or rural brethren, tend to want to get things fixed. Lakewood, Calif., 22 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, was just another boondock of 5,000 people ten years ago when the boom thundered. A development group poured $200 million into 17,000 homes ($8,000-$11,000) and a big shopping center. As residents took hold, the sense of frustration that came from long-distance county rule and the absence of locally administered services flashed into a new, self-starting energy. Lakewood, with a present population of 75,000, incorporated itself in 1954, sank...
Pastors in Politics. So far, there had been little talk of the candidates' religion, although much talk had been prophesied in view of the fact that West Virginia is 93% Protestant. The pastor of a United Brethren Church in Parkersburg told his flock that if Kennedy wins, "the Pope will be running the country," and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, stopping off in Charleston, doubted that a Catholic could remain independent. That was all, so far. And everyone remembered that in darkest 1928, Al Smith won West Virginia's Democratic primary (81,739-75,976) against Missouri...
...thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness," finding himself "in perils from waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren...