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...total of 1,782 seats available. Only one Southern black has been elected to office by statewide vote: he is Joseph Hatchett, 44, a fruit picker's son who won a place on the Florida Supreme Court. Last week Howard Lee, a black former mayor of Chapel Hill, N.C., got 46% of the vote in a Democratic primary runoff for Lieutenant Governor ?a good showing, but not enough. In Mississippi, Fred Banks Jr., one of four blacks in the state legislature, says: "It may take 20 years to get a black elected to statewide office here...
Unlike the first two Hanoverian Kings, both of whom kept mistresses, George has been a devoted husband and father. Up at 6, he attends chapel with Charlotte and their eleven children at 8. A firm believer in hard exercise, he rides every day, rain or shine, for three or four hours and often ends the evening with several hours of simple country dancing. His other habits are equally Spartan. Lunch is usually nothing more than tea and bread and butter; dinner is often boiled mutton and turnips, washed down with barley water. He dresses plainly, and he will not even...
...weather was forbidding as Lay Preacher Thomas Rankin arrived this Sunday at White's Chapel southwest of Petersburg, Virginia. He had planned to hold an open-air meeting, with shade trees shielding the congregation from the blazing southern sun. But it was raining, so he had to pack the worshipers into the chapel, while about 400 more clustered in the rain at the doors and windows. Then, as Rankin orated on Ezekiel's vision of the dry bones, the mixed crowd of whites and blacks began moaning and crying to God for mercy, some kneeling, some falling...
This was no isolated event. Similar paroxysms befell another congregation the previous Sunday, Rankin's first in the area, when he held two meetings at nearby Boisseau's Chapel. Indeed, at a series of May meetings at Boisseau's Chapel, says the Reverend Devereaux Jarratt, Anglican ally of the current revival, "the windows of heaven were opened and the rain of Divine influence poured down for more than 40 days...
...hospital. Said Karen Hess, 18, the president of the student body: "This is the first time that most of us have ever had close friends die." At 9:30 a.m. one day, Linda Green, an 18-year-old senior attended a memorial service at the Ullrey Memorial Chapel for Rachel Carlson, 16. At 11 a.m. she went to the First Methodist Church for a service in memory of Maria Azim, 15. At 5 p.m. she attended a memorial service at the Chapel of the Twin Cities for Jodi Lynn McCoy...