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...Lynchburg, Va.. girls from all-white Sweet Briar women's college picketed drugstores with segregated lunch counters, as six other white and Negro students, including two white girls from similarly fashionable Randolph Macon, began the second week of 30-day trespassing sentences for earlier sit-ins at the counters...
...state legislature introduced a resolution to censure the faculty for its stand last week, one professor snorted: "If they're serious about telling the university what the faculty has a right to say, they can have their university without two-thirds of its faculty." At Mercer University in Macon, Emory University History Professor Bell Ervin Wiley, lecturing on Robert E. Lee, said: "It is inconceivable that Lee, if he were alive today, would advocate resistance to national authority or in any way abet social turmoil or racial hatred...
...tithe-literally, "tenth"-is simply a tax of a tenth of one's income. The ancient Israelites paid it, and Christians carried on the custom; the Synod of Macon in 585 made it compulsory under threat of excommunication. After the Reformation, the Protestants continued tithing until the custom fell into disuse during the last century, except with the Mormons, the Seventh-day Adventists, and several other groups, which have flourished on it. Since World War II, however, tithing has staged something of a comeback among Protestants, though not among Catholics...
...than-air ships of the 1920s and '30s. The French Dixmude disappeared over the Mediterranean in 1923; the U.S. Navy's 680-ft. Shenandoah broke up in a storm over Ohio in 1925 ; the 785-ft. Akron splashed in the Atlantic in 1933; and her sister ship Macon was ditched in the Pacific in 1935. Then, on May 6, 1937, the biggest dirigible of all, the hydrogen-filled German Hindenburg, blew up and burned at Lakehurst, NJ. For a while the world all but gave up lighter-than-air craft. Later, using its almost limitless supply of nonflammable...
...Tuskegee, Ala., birthplace of Tuskegee Institute (for Negroes), the Macon Theater had the last word in separate but equal cinema. The separate ticket offices, separate entrances, and separate concessions were old as midnight popcorn, but there was an added feature: a ceiling-to-floor partition, running down the middle of the auditorium. There were 324 seats on the white side and 336 seats on the colored side. Up front: two separate but equal silver screens...