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...black majority was greatly pleased by the commission's findings. Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of the newly formed African National Council, called the report a "God-given chance" for Rhodesia's blacks and whites "to reason together and try to solve their problems." Smith was not having any of that kind of reasoning. "They are a bunch of unscrupulous politicians," he said of the council leaders, "who have hoodwinked the poor African." In the absence of a settlement, the British government will maintain its diplomatic and economic boycott of Rhodesia. "The status quo," said Foreign Secretary...
...other seven churches in COCU, the United Church of Christ has already expressed dissatisfaction with the unity concept (TIME, April 3). A poll of Episcopal Church ministers has indicated that 41% would refuse to serve as ministers of a united COCU church. The United Methodist Church reaffirmed its participation in COCU in April, but its commitment to final union is less certain. Three Black Methodist denominations are torn between the ideal of Christian unity and the new emphasis on black identity. The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) would likely be the last to abandon the movement...
...accommodating next time. The Carnegie Corporation, with assets of $305 million, voted against the reformers' proposals at Eli Lilly, Merck, Ford and G.M. But Alan Pifer, the foundation's president, wrote to chairmen of the firms emphasizing the "substantial importance" of the issues. Trustees of the United Methodist Church's Glide Foundation ($6 million) wrote to each of the companies in the Glide portfolio that they would support management's slate of directors only if it included women and "minority-group" representatives. Said Roger Kennedy, financial vice president of the Ford Foundation, which voted for management...
Pastor, United Methodist Church...
...what it was called"), Cornelia heard constant talk of politics from her twice-widowed mother, Ruby Folsom Ellis Austin,* who served as official hostess for her brother before he remarried. Cornelia's father, Charles G. Ellis, a civil engineer, died in 1960. At Montgomery's Methodist Huntingdon College and Florida's Rollins College, Cornelia studied voice and piano. Then she slipped into what she calls "my little hillbilly jag." She sang and played guitar, toured Australia and Hawaii with Country Singer Roy Acuff, and wrote and performed two recorded songs for MGM: It's No Summer...