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...Greek. At 18, Farmer received a B.S. in chemistry from Wiley College. Seemingly a natural for the pulpit (he had won a $1,000 prize for oratory), Farmer got a divinity degree from Howard University but was never ordained. He was repelled by the then segregationist policies of the Methodist Church, which inevitably led him into the infant civil rights movement. For the next 28 years, he dedicated himself to the black revolution...
Nina was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in 1935 in Tryon, N.C., the sixth of eight children. Father was a handyman, Mother a Methodist minister. Both were musical, and Nina began taking classical piano lessons at seven. Bach soon became (and remains) her favorite: "There's always a place he's going and he gets there and he comes down gently. That's perfection." In 1953, after a year of study at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music (paid for by friends back home), she landed a $90-a-week job playing piano...
...kind of Method fidget, but he could yet become one of the better young actors in Hollywood. As Tobey, Yvette Mimieux uses her doe-eyed vulnerability to maximum effect. Her fragile beauty could reduce any ethics professor to acute schizophrenia and radicalize the entire student body of Southern Methodist University...
...Blake's most significant moves so far has been to cultivate young, revolution-minded churchmen from the Third World. Among his major appointments is the Rev. Philip Potter, a West Indian Methodist, as director of the Division of World Missions and Evangelism. Echoing the dissatisfaction of other ecclesiastics from Asia, Africa and Latin America, Potter said in Tulsa last week: "Both the capitalist countries and the Socialist countries have serious weakness. Under our freedom in the West, the minority has the freedom to rot. We in the Third World don't want to be faced with either/or...
Council leaders are considering sweeping organizational changes in response to the demands of African and Asian "young churches." One action approved in Tulsa last week was the creation of a 16-man committee, led by Methodist Bishop James K. Mathews of Boston, to study ways of reorganizing the council itself. Among the proposals the group will consider is whether to turn over some of the Geneva secretariat's functions to regional or national offices. Other decisions taken were to send Blake on a peace mission to the Middle East and to hold meetings later this year...