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...came to head was forever caricatured for its heavy foreign accent and its European-immigrant membership. Yet he, the man who brought the party to its zenith, proudly traced his family's history in the New World back to the 1650s. His grandfather had been a circuit-riding Methodist parson and his father a Kansas homesteader and schoolteacher. Browder began as a good capitalist apparatchik-a department store cashboy at the age of nine. He joined the fledgling party in the early 1920s after serving two jail sentences for "conspiring" to resist the draft during World...
Guerrilla Fighters. The alternative to the guerrillas seems to lie in the African National Council, a moderate group headed by a bespectacled Methodist churchman, Bishop Abel Muzorewa. "We are not pressing for majority rule right away," says Muzorewa. "Majority rule after a reasonable time is perfectly acceptable." Muzorewa's "reasonable time" does not stretch, however, to 2033, the date cited by whites as the earliest possibility for black majority rule. "Everything depends on the good will of the present regime," Muzorewa adds, "but, sadly, good will is not now apparent." Indeed, the regime has not only broken off talks...
...Methodist student preparing for the ministry at Duke University's divinity school some years ago, Wilton Wynn never dreamed that he would become a regular visitor to Vatican City. But he abandoned his theological career, became a journalist and for the past eleven years has been a TIME correspondent in Rome. Thus, as he has been so many times in the past, Wynn was recently at the Vatican, this time to interview Jesuit Leader Father Pedro Arrupe for this week's cover story on the Jesuits, Catholicism's most visible and versatile order of priests...
...Corporation's committee on shareholder responsibility voted three to one to cast its $10 million worth of shares in favor of the United Methodist Church-sponsored resolution, which the student-faculty-alumni Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) endorsed last week...
James Armstrong, a Methodist bishop, rushed to the reservation. Armstrong asked Rev. John P. Adams, a member of the Methodist church's law and community relations division, to accompany...