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...raised a ruckus at the last annual meeting and are now ready to begin soliciting proxies for the next one. But General Motors is not waiting. Last week the corporation elected a black to its 23-man board. He is the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, who was once assistant pastor to Adam Clayton Powell at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, and more recently has specialized in persuading or pushing U.S. industry to hire Negro workers. His election raises the number of blacks known to be on boards of major U.S. companies to eight...
...tall (6 ft. 5 in.), powerfully built and forcefully spoken pastor, Sullivan will bring to the board a valuable sensitivity to current trends. He first came to prominence in the early 1960s, when he organized boycotts against companies that ignored his pleas to hire more blacks. Later he switched his emphasis to training blacks for industrial jobs; in 1964 he opened Opportunities Industrialization Center in an abandoned Philadelphia police station. With funds raised mostly from the white business community, O.I.C. has since opened branches in some 90 other U.S. cities, and trained an estimated 10,000 workers for factory jobs...
...Lester Kinsolving comes from one of the royal families of the Episcopal Church. His great-grandfather, Ovid Americus Kinsolving, was a Virginia pastor and a spy for the Confederacy. His grandfather, Lucien Lee Kinsolving, was a missionary bishop in Brazil. His late father, Arthur B. Kinsolving II, was chaplain at West Point and, later, Bishop of Arizona. His great-uncle George was Bishop of Texas. A distant cousin, Charles J. Kinsolving III, is currently Bishop of New Mexico. Yet probably no Kinsolving has ever been heard by a wider audience-and certainly none has gone after an audience more flamboyantly...
...Laszlo Pastor '73, head of Harvard's YAF chapter, said yesterday that he and Robert Lavietes '71, president of Young Republicans, had organized the counter-demonstration...
...orthodox Separatist faith. At the beginning of the 19th century, the congregation of the First Church of Plymouth split over belief in the Trinity, and took a vote. The losers would leave the congregation. The Unitarians won the election, but lost their church to fire a century later. The pastor of the trinitarian Church of the Pilgrimage across the street could not resist the opportunity to scoff a bit. "We kept the faith," said a sign he hung outside his church. "They kept the furniture...