Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shoot to Kill." While King and other clergymen, Negro and white, roamed the streets pleading in vain with the rioters to disperse, a police chaplain, the Rev. Robert Holderby, told angry police at one point: "You're here to enforce the law, not to inflame." One white minister working with King was swept aside by police. "You're only making these people angrier the way you're acting," he remonstrated. "I don't care," the patrolman answered. "Move out, do you hear...
Vile Appetites. The place with the wildest reputation is Ocean City, which was founded by Methodist clergymen in the late 19th century as "a moral seaside resort which must be run in the interests of our holy Christianity." Ocean City still bans alcoholic beverages ("We cannot pander to vile appetites or propensities"), but just two miles across the causeway is Somers Point-and it has 18 bars. After sunning all day at Ocean City and partying all night at Somers Point, the conclusion is frequently sexual. Says Ann Williams, a 23-year-old medical technician: "The kids think nothing...
...whether the church should pay taxes on its property. Similar investigations have been undertaken in recent years by the Baptists, the American Lutheran Church, the United Presbyterian Church and the National Council of Churches. By and large, the studies have ended in demands for more study-largely because the clergymen themselves are bitterly divided about whether they should pay any taxes, and on what property...
During and after the crusade, Billy's associate evangelists will also conduct seminars for clergymen, advising them on how to receive and greet the new decision makers. An innovation for Graham crusades will be the use of closedcircuit television to broadcast the crusade to cities as far away as Glasgow and Edinburgh. All these techniques are designed to take dead aim on Britain's low rate (10%) of church attendance, on the huffy refusal of the average English cleric to proselytize, and on the acknowledged need of Graham's men to conserve the results of decisions...
...Government agencies set up recruiting booths in the Civic Auditorium. Among those represented: Metropolitan Life, Safeway Stores, General Electric, IBM, Bank of America, Trans World Airlines, Levi Strauss. To draw a large crowd, sound trucks blared the news of the fair through neighborhoods heavily populated by Negroes, and clergymen spread the word from pulpits. In all 10,000 people showed up looking for jobs. They met with company recruiters, some of them Negroes, who explained each company's requirements and opportunities...