Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British forces burn Virginia port of Norfolk...
...corrosive breath of materialism, secularism, commercialism and godlessness," cries the Rev. Jaroy Weber of Lubbock, Texas, outgoing president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and this leads to "hunger, inflation, credibility gaps, loose morals, bad government, divorce, drunkenness." But as some 16,000 Southern Baptist messengers gather this week in Norfolk for the 119th convention of the largest Protestant group in the U.S., their spirits are as ebullient as their slogan: LET THE CHURCH STAND UP. As keynote speaker, they corralled the 38th President, Gerald Ford, and more than a few of them expect that the 39th President...
Despite such controversies, the thousands of messengers did not go to the dome-topped Scope Convention Hall in Norfolk to argue. They went for song and sermons and uplift. They went for the "Joggers Jubilee" and a concert by the Anita Bryant Singers. The back-slapping men in plaid jackets, the women in bouffant hairdos and red-white-and-blue dresses, feel good-feel almost evangelical-about a church that is strong and successful and middleclass. For all its hierarchical looseness, the Southern Baptist empire extends to scores of colleges, newspapers and other holdings. The budget to be voted...
Various strategies have been worked out. Florida A. & M. uses part of the state funds allotted under its desegregation plan for incentive grants to superior nonblack applicants; 10% of its 5,700 students are now white. Georgia's Savannah State College, Virginia's Norfolk State and North Carolina A. & T. University have successful joint academic programs with nearby predominantly white colleges. Says Savannah State's President Prince Jackson: "We are getting more applications from whites as a result...
...television," she said of the champ. "I had no choice; my brothers used to watch, and we only had one TV set." She said she would like to have seen this fight live-at Maryland's Capital Center-but she had a date for the weekend in Norfolk, Va., where she was queen of the 23rd International Azalea Festival. By fight night, Ali may have wished he had done more training and less visiting. After 15 rounds with a surprisingly tough opponent, he barely squeaked by with a decision over Young...