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...advance planning, POAU took cues from its longtime executive director, Methodist Lawyer Glenn L. Archer. "A new phenomenon has appeared in the secular life of the U.S.," said he. "It is the same phenomenon that has played a dominant, often sinister role in the life of many Latin states. Today, the church's secular power seeks to shape the policies of the state, the composition of governmental departments, and the appropriation of Government funds for Catholicism's private purposes." POAU geared to block various Catholic ambitions...
...Negro Soprano Leontyne Price, 35. Returning to her native city of Laurel (pop. 27,889) after a third triumphant season with the Metropolitan Opera, she drew a standing ovation from an informally integrated audience of 2,000 whites and Negroes at a benefit concert for St. Paul's Methodist Church. Glowed Leontyne: "This is the only place where I can be at peace with myself, except Rome. New York was meant for work. Here at home I can eat too much and sleep too much...
...raced through the house opening windows and doors; then she began rubbing her unconscious tenants' faces with cold wet towels. Shari came to and remarked: "I blacked out." The firemen had to use a resuscitator on Bob before he came around. At the emergency room of Memphis' Methodist Hospital, where the pair spent four tense days recovering, a doctor said: "Fifteen minutes later would have been too late. They would have been dead...
...many people were brought into church by fear of war, hope of social prestige, or for other nonreligious reasons. Washington's Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord charges that "the church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed." In the nuclear age, suggests San Francisco's puckish Episcopal Bishop James Pike, God became "a sort of tranquilizer pill to a populace keeping a wary eye on the sword of Damocles." Others who joined churches found them not serious enough, or contemptibly unconcerned with corruption and injustice...
...Methodist 102 Roman Catholic 99 Presbyterian 81 Baptist 61 Episcopalian 60 Congregationalist 24 Lutheran 17 Other Protestant 73 Jewish...