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...million Baptists in 121 countries around the world, 23 million of them Americans and 10.6 million of them members of the virtually all-white Southern Baptist Convention. Last week, following up declarations on racial justice passed by their annual sessions in June, Southern Baptists joined with other delegates to elect without opposition the first Negro president of the Baptist World Alliance. He is William R. Tolbert Jr., 52, vice president of Liberia since...
Wanting to Know. De Gaulle recalled that he had met President Johnson briefly on just two occasions-in Paris when Johnson was Vice President elect, and at John Kennedy's funeral. "I knew Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy," he said, "and now I want to know President Johnson...
Among the recommendations made by the Warren Commission after its investigation of President Kennedy's assassination was that Congress should pass a law making it a federal-as opposed to a state or local-crime to kill, kidnap or assault a President, Vice President, President-elect or Vice President-elect. Last week the House of Representatives passed a bill that would do just that, and more. In the case of assassination, the House measure would impose the death penalty...
...submerged under 50 ft. of polar ice when the big blowout comes on Christmas, 1965. When Geraghty finally surfaces, he finds himself on top: every higher-ranking officer is dead. After using machine guns to quell a rebellion by U.S. survivors who get it into their heads to elect a civilian government, he sets himself up as World Leader, or Commander-1. In his brave new science-fiction world, the males are all drugged into brainless docility, while the sturdiest and, presumably, best-looking women are kept around as Selected Future Leader Breeders. Geraghty's ultimate goal: to rebuild...
...United Republicans of America is dedicated to electing conservative Republicans by national fund-raising and organization of committees down to the precinct level. U.R.A. will concentrate on areas that normally elect liberal Democrats. D. Bruce Evans, a former official of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce who organized U.R.A., says of Goldwater's F.S.A.: "I think the time for conservative education is past. It's time for political action...