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...James Morris Lawson Jr., 32, advocates the Gandhi-given tactics of nonviolent protest as a way of life for U.S. Negroes. Lawson does as he teaches. Born in Pennsylvania, he spent most of a year in a federal penitentiary as a conscientious objector, studied with Gandhi during his three years as a student missionary in India. Last June, over the protests of 112 members of the Vanderbilt faculty, Lawson was expelled from the university's divinity school (TIME, June 13, 1960) for advocating civil disobedience to fellow students who took part in Nashville's sit-in campaigns. Lawson...
...training in CORE methods of meeting violent situations without fighting back. Among the leaders of the Freedom Ride were two white men who have made careers of getting into trouble for causes: New York's James Peck, 46, who spent three years in prison as a conscientious objector during World War II, and Connecticut's Architect-Painter Albert Bigelow, 55, who got tossed into a Honolulu cell after he and three shipmates set out in 1958 in the ketch Golden Rule, heading for Eniwetok atoll in an effort to halt scheduled U.S. nuclear tests...
...weeks the Great Kennedy Recruiting Drive turned out better than one draftee a day for the New Frontier-and not even an occasional conscientious objector slowed the parade of talent into front-line jobs. But last week the recruiters stepped on a booby trap, with everybody watching...
...worked for the Federal Government since 1954, when he was branded a "potential security risk" and discharged as a consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission. But his standing with the United Nations has apparently not suffered. Last week Oppenheimer, a prime architect of the Abomb, a conscientious objector to the H-bomb, was confirmed as the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency's official representative to the forthcoming Tenth Annual High Energy Physics Conference. The man who appointed him: the U.N. agency's director-general, W. Sterling Cole, onetime G.O.P. Representative and a congressional overseer of the Atomic Energy...
Obey the Law. An advocate of militant passive resistance against segregation. Pennsylvania-born Lawson is the son of a Methodist minister. He served a year in federal penitentiaries as a conscientious objector, later spent three years in I ndia as a missionary and avid student of Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence ("Gandhi helped me to see the Christian life"). To earn a bachelor of divinity degree, he entered Vanderbilt in 1958, organized Negro students on the side...