Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these one-acters, Israel Horovitz's Morning, is black in every sense. The set and costumes are black, the people are black (or white, as I'll explain in a second), the humor is black. It is a strange play, one that insecure whites and Uncle Toms will call racist. Don't believe them...
...soon found himself on the FBI payroll at about $150 a month, plus expenses. Whenever he heard of "a subversive Communist front organization, the S.D.S., or how a bunch of radicals-I knew most of the radicals -were going to burn their draft cards, I would call the FBI." He tried, he says, to keep his news and FBI work separate, but as his Bureau activities became more demanding, he found "I couldn't do this one hundred percent of the time." When, for example, David Dellinger (now a defendant in Chicago) spoke at a rally at San Diego...
...next stoplight, he challenged the other driver, 65-year-old Charles Ripple, to a fight. Though Ripple and his wife pleaded that he suffered from a heart condition, Nosis pursued them to their suburban home and made menacing gestures in the driveway. After Mrs. Ripple went inside to call the sheriff, her husband collapsed. Less than an hour later, he died of a heart attack...
Mclntire is not giving up by any manner of means. More than 600 radio stations carry his weekday "20th century Reformation" broadcasts. He says that he is forming a rival right-wing group to the A.C.C.C. that he will call the American Christian Action Council. And he controls the small (an estimated 8,000 members) Bible Presbyterian Church-at least for the time being. Last month, at the church's synodal convention, 40% of the delegates voted for a rival candidate to replace Founder Mclntire as moderator...
...teacher, a coach. or just a friend, Getch is what you might call a "character." Surely, no one who has known him will ever forget him. As he prepared his 6-1 Yardlings for their last three games this week, he paused to say, "It's been a wonderful 14 years." Then his thoughts turned back to Princeton, Brown, and Yale...