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...Inter-American Committee (CIAP), which guides the Alianza, went Walt Whitman Rostow, 47, chairman of the State Department Policy Planning Council and a man with both the prestige and power to cut through the Alianza's bureaucratic underbrush. The total performance left Peru's Ambassador Celso Pastor bedazzled. "This marks the beginning of a new era," he said. Or as one Administration adviser put it: "Latin Americans are learning that corn pone can be as nourishing as crepes suzette...
Last year he appointed a Negro pastor to a white congregation in Tucson, and he has pledges from more than 50 churches that they will accept any minister he assigns, regardless of color...
...bullets in Mr. Charlie's small Southern town. Baldwin's battle of the races pits Lyle Britten (Rip Torn), a poor-white grocery-store keeper, against Richard Henry (Al Freeman Jr.), an ex-dope addict recently returned from New York and the son of the local Negro pastor. Both men are deformed spirits, the white envenomed by poverty, the Negro by hatred of his father and his father's compromises with oppression. Arrogant, mocking, indefensible in his behavior, Henry humiliates Britten in front of Britten's wife. The white man demands an apology, gets none...
...Checker, 22, Negro rock 'n' roller who started the ball writhing a couple of years ago when he made the twist the dance of the hour; and Catherina Lodders, 21, devastating (37-23-37) Dutch model, Miss World of 1962; in a ceremony performed by the white pastor of the Temple Lutheran Church of Merchantville, NJ. The surprise guest turned out to be Chubby's mother, Mrs. Eartie Evans, who had opposed the interracial marriage at first but finally came round, deciding "if I couldn't beat them, I'd join them...
Died. The Rev. John Haynes Holmes, 84, crusading churchman, longtime (1907-49) pastor of Manhattan's prestigious Unitarian-Universalist Community Church, who campaigned against capital punishment and corruption (he played a key role in dethroning New York's Mayor James J. Walker in 1932), worked for causes ranging from birth control to nuclear disarmament, helped found the American Civil Liberties Union and the N.A.A.C.P.; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...