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...failure to interact, a few avant-garde theologians are experimenting with new, nonverbal techniques as potential ways of restoring some sense of community in worship. A striking example of this trend took place at the recent assembly of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala, Sweden, where Wilbert H. McGaw Jr. presided over a series of what he calls "touch-and-tell" services that used physical contact as a stimulus to prayer...
...Rousselot read the attack, he ignored it. But Furniture Dealer Webster was outraged. He circulated a letter to McGaw's advertisers: "I ask if you, as a pro-American, anti-Communist businessman, plan to support a newspaper which is evidently following the Communist Party line?" In answer, some 13 advertisers pulled out of the Southwesterner; the newspaper, which had lost $2,500 the previous year, lost an additional...
...McGaw filed suit in federal court, asking for $1,800,000 from the Birch Society; in state court, he demanded the same sum from Webster. Once the Birch Society won a court order protecting the secrecy of its membership lists, McGaw was unable to prove that Webster was the society's legal agent, and he was forced to withdraw his federal suit. When that happened, the Birch Society, which had filed a countersuit against McGaw, also called off its lawyers. Had the Birch Society gone into court as a plaintiff, it would have faced the difficult task of proving...
...Report that Backfired. In state court, where he sued Webster instead of the Birch Society, the angry editor fared better. The defense tried the classic libel defense of truth. McGaw's editorial, the lawyers said, followed the Communist line, just as Webster had charged. Appearing as a star witness, Far-Right Commentator Dan Smoot agreed that the editorial was Communist lining, and the same point was made in a deposition from Martin Dies, onetime chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee. But then the defense quoted some words of praise for the John Birch Society from a California...
Throughout the trial, the courtroom was packed with spectators openly sympathetic to Webster. Some of them may have kept busy after hours as well. McGaw received obscene telephone calls at his hotel. "They were so vile," he recalls, "that I couldn't repeat them to a Marine drill sergeant-and my own language is pretty salty." Victory should help him bear up under the insults. But it may be some time before McGaw can collect his $20,000. Last week Webster announced his intention of appealing the decision...