Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last August, during an evening service at the white frame Holiness Church of God in Jesus' Name at Big Stone Gap, Va., Oscar Pelfrey. 65, stood before the congregation holding a pair of writhing timber rattlesnakes. "I believe, Jesus, O Jesus, I believe-thank you, Jesus!" cried Pelfrey, a lay minister of the church. Suddenly, one of the rattlers struck him on the left temple. Taken home, he refused medical attention and died six hours later...
Last week a Virginia Circuit Court of Appeals convicted a member of the Big Stone Gap congregation, Roscoe Mullins, 50, of violating a state law against handling snakes "in such a manner as to endanger the life or health of any person." (Another defendant, Kenneth Short, was acquitted of the same charge.) The prosecution claimed that Mullins had also handled the snakes at the service, thus endangering other worshipers. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $50 fine. Released on $2,000 bond, Mullins said that he would appeal all the way to the Supreme Court...
Early in the day, one of Dow's public relations men told us in a short speech that Dow knew there was going to be something of a communications gap. If he thought we would leave Midland unfairly equating Dow in our minds with the German munitions-makers, he was wrong. But we, at least I, hadn't arrived at Midland with that impression in the first place...
There was a gap, but it was a barrier far more formidable than the barbed wire fence where a Dow guard takes away your camera while you go on your tour of the plant. It was a gap between people who enjoyed working for a profit, who accepted money flow as a measure of their success, and people like me who felt uncomfortable all day with the idea...
There are 14,500 commercial banks in the United States; 20 are black controlled. This great gap underlines the economic and entrepreneurial difference between the white economic power structure and black communities in this country. When Unity Bank opened on June 24, it became the first bi-racial bank in the history of New England and the second to exist in the country--The Freedom National Bank in Harlem, established in 1964, was the first...