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...Slap or a Tickle. Some of Dibelius' extremism had embarrassed his colleagues - as when he announced that as a Christian he did not feel obligated to obey even the speed laws of the godless East German regime - and there were many who felt that his intransigence made life still harder for E.K.D. pastors under Communist control. The question before the synod: Should the delegates vote to continue Dibelius' policies by electing his deputy, Bishop Hanns Lilje, 61, an able preacher and administrator whose name is anathema to the Communists? Or should they find a candidate less provocative...
...same week responsible New Orleans moderates turned out 1,600 strong for a testimonial dinner to five members of their board of education who have been battling the state legislature in an effort to obey the court. But tensions were high. On the eve of New Orleans' famed Mardi Gras more than 100 Negro organizations canceled their usual celebrations. Schwegmann's supermarket chain advertised a formal denial in the Times-Picayune that sales of ice picks and lye have been heavier than usual...
...executive vice president of the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists. "Individual men should be their own agents in all things respecting their own lives." These conservatives hold the right of private property as the best bulwark of freedom. They argue that unemployment should be alleviated by charity; that children should obey the Biblical command to honor parents by caring for them in their old age instead of leaving the responsibility to the Social Security Administration...
...upset his proud personality. But he never failed to carry out the orders received, not only with discipline, but adding to them the wellspring of his faith." For today's France, at any rate, the lesson was clear: De Gaulle expects every man to do his duty-and obey orders...
Massive Retreat. No one seemed more aware of the fact that Georgia had to obey national authority than Governor S. Ernest Vandiver, who stepped before the lawmakers, "as a devoted father," with a sweeping plan for giving up massive resistance to integration. It was a momentous gesture, in marked contrast to such other Deep South resisters as Alabama's Governor John Patterson, who vowed last week to close his university in the face of any integration...