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...between whites and Negroes is actually rare in the U.S.-at least officially-miscegenation by cohabitation is another matter, rooted largely in the South's unspoken mores. According to one study by University of Wisconsin Sociologist Robert Stuckert, 21% of white Americans are "descendants of persons of African origin." By the calculation of Anthropologist Melville Herskovitz, 72% of U.S. Negroes have white ancestors...
Connie Hoffman, a white woman, and Dewey McLaughlin, a Spanish-speaking merchant seaman of Honduran origin, were convicted under this law in Miami Beach in 1962. Each was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $150 fine. The defendants appealed to the Florida Supreme Court and were turned down in light of what Justice Millard Caldwell called "the sound rule of stare decisis" (following precedents) and "the well-written decision" of Pace. Let the U.S. Supreme Court decide, added Caldwell caustically, "if the newfound concept of 'social justice' has outdated 'the law of the land...
...ECUMENISM. Although it is traditionally wary of church-union proposals, the Methodist Church is almost ready to approve a formal merger with the 756,600-member Evangelical United Brethren, who are German in origin but close to the Methodists in doctrine and discipline. The conference will consider a proposal that the merger should be carried out in stages during the next twelve years, but it faces a sharp conference-floor fight. Some younger ministers believe that the timetable for union is too slow, while Southern Methodists are wary of the Midwest-centered Brethren's adding numerical strength...
Shrewish Daughters. The church was officially skeptical. Not until 1933 was the Vatican satisfied that the wounds were not self-inflicted and were truly of mysterious origin...
Strikingly photographed, the film, taken from a Rio stage success, reveals its origin in occasional talkiness and the stagy pace of comings and goings. Its anticlerical theme seems partly inadvertent, for the characters show little shading: if the priest is merely obdurate, Ze is fanatic. The Given Word's strength lies in the vitality that pulses through an astringent morality play, filling it with the cries of pitchmen and voodoo women and street-corner poets, the hip-heaving dancers and gourd-rattling hipsters who almost make humanity look worth dying...