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...countries. Four out of ten member churches are now in the Third World. At silver jubilee services in Geneva's austere medieval Cathedral of St. Pierre, the preacher who stood in John Calvin's pulpit was W.C.C. General Secretary Philip A. Potter, a West Indian Methodist and a black. When the cathedral organ was silent, Papa O'Yeah MacKenzie, a black drummer from Ghana who wore a leopard-skin jacket, played lively percussion solos...
...contributions to the guerrillas that provoked the angriest criticism of the council during the past few years and that apologists defended at the Geneva meeting. The discussion centered on a 13-page report on strategies for social justice prepared by a W.C.C. study group headed by Memphis Methodist Pastor James Lawson. The report saw three "options" open to contemporary Christians: 1) Nonviolent action as the only possibility consistent with obedience to Jesus Christ; 2) Accepting the necessity of violent resistance as a Christian duty in extreme circumstances, but applying to it criteria similar to those governing a "just...
...realize. Both wanted to be cartoonists; Guccione contributes Jules FeifTerish pieces to his magazine, Hefner once maintained a comic strip on the events of his life. Both men are divorced parents, and both have employed their own fathers as corporate treasurers. Glenn Hefner, 75, is a shy, church-going Methodist whose hobby is photographing flowers; white-haired Anthony Guccione, 68, is an accountant whose hip dress style reflects that...
Fewer Deaths. Bypass surgery began with an unplanned and extreme measure taken in November 1964 by Dr. H. Edward Garrett at Houston's Methodist Hospital. Operating on a 42-year-old truck driver named Heriberto Hernandez, Garrett had expected to ream out a short stretch of clogged coronary artery and stitch over it a split piece of vein removed from the patient's own leg-what surgeons call a patch graft. Two main arteries proved to be so diseased that this procedure was not feasible. Garrett, who is now at the University of Tennessee's Medical Unit...