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Doxy: “Opinion, stemming from the Greek word, dox...
According to Billy Graham, that was one of the intents. "There was tremen dous vision at the [World Council's] founding in 1948," Graham told TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling at the congress. "But the council gradually moved further and further from ortho dox ties. The gulf between it and the Evangelicals has deepened. I hope this congress will get the World Council to re-evaluate its theological position...
...Thomas Lambo, a towering blue-black Nigerian psychiatrist in flowing tribal robes. The guests ranged from British Economist Austin Robinson and French Geographer Jean Gottmann to American urbanists like Robert Wood of M.I.T. and Martin Meyerson, president of the University of Buffalo. Mingling easily among them all was Dox-iadis, a silvery fox of a man-academic, politician, humanitarian, man of influence...
...Delos a waste? No: if the formal meetings lack unity and direction, Dox-iadis still performs a considerable service by bringing together brilliant, informed, influential people and giving them time to teach and invigorate one another. Much of the payoff occurs between the regular sessions when the participants freely exchange new ideas and form new intellectual friendships. Delos may be pretentious; it is also fun, and the experience is bound to affect urban crises throughout the world...
...customers at his fried-chicken restaurant ax handles-he called them "Pickrick drumsticks"-to keep Negroes out. Georgia Republicans, figuring that he would be an easier target than Arnall for G.O.P. Candidate Howard ("Bo") Callaway in November, drove up to polling booths by the thousands to vote for Mad dox-many in cars bearing Callaway bumper stickers. By one estimate, they cast 100,000 votes for the balding bigot, enough to give Maddox a startling 430,000-to-360,000 victory. As a result, liberals and Negroes next month are expected to either support a write-in candidate or vote...