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...most unlikely confrontation. In a clear-cut civil rights dispute, both protagonists were white. One was a judge, the upholder of law and order, the other a clergyman, ordinarily the advocate of peace and patience. Yet the test of wills between Milwaukee Circuit Judge Robert Cannon and the Rev. James Edward Groppi (rhymes with puppy), a Roman Catholic priest, kept the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa in constant turmoil for two weeks, and last week brought out the Wisconsin National Guard to keep peace for the first time in 32 years...
Politics & Eagles. The trouble began when Father Groppi, 35, led the N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council in picketing Judge Cannon's house in Wauwatosa to protest his membership in the Fraternal Order of Eagles, a men's organization that, like such similar groups as the Elks, Moose and Odd Fellows, specifically excludes non-Caucasians (one prominent Eagle: David Lawrence, chairman of the President's Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing). The council picked Cannon because he has a generally liberal record, figured that he would therefore be the most likely to give in and leave the white-only...
...this it was mistaken. A vocal opponent of the discriminatory clause within the Milwaukee aerie, Judge Cannon, 49, argued that he could best change Eagle policy by remaining within the organization-and that he would not, in any event, yield to pressure. Said he: "I've got my Irish up now." Actually, a majority of judges in Milwaukee-17 out of 26-are members of the Eagles, which generally helps informally in their elections, and most look upon membership as a positive political advantage despite the obvious strains between a judge's duty to be impartial...
More a Messiah. Up against Judge Cannon's immovability came Father Groppi, who is the assistant pastor of St. Boniface's, a church with an almost all-Negro congregation in the heart of the city's "Inner Core," or black ghetto. The priest has made the Negro's problems his own; he participated in last year's famous Selma march and made frequent trips to Mississippi to carry food, books and clothing to civil rights workers. Before the picketing of Judge Cannon's home, he had become well known in Milwaukee-and earned...
...PRUITTS OF SOUTHAMPTON (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Phyllis Diller as the widowed head of the poor but proud Pruitts of Long Island. The first episode, "Phyllis Goes for Broke," chronicles Uncle Ned's (Reginald Gardiner) efforts to marry Phyllis off to moneyed stuffiness, General Cannon (John McGiver). Gypsy Rose Lee plays a noisy neighbor...