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ROBERT GRAY Pastor...
Municipal election day came clear and warm last week to Clinton, Tenn. Main Street was gay with holly and Christmas lights. The Rev. Paul Turner, 33, pastor of the First Baptist Church, the community's largest, dressed slowly before setting out on a mission of importance and, as it developed, of danger. On the outskirts of town, a small band of white men glared up at the cluster of homes atop Foley's Hill, where live the Negroes whose children would try soon again to attend Clinton high school. Thus did Clinton (pop. about 3,700 law-abiding...
...Talks. Not all the recorded messages are "prayers."' Pastor Grace Faus of the Divine Science Church in Washington, D.C., for instance, uses a one-minute "sermonette." "Do we realize," she may ask, "that we are an activity and creation of the mind of God? In God there cannot be boredom, fatigue, or a lack of energy . . . Let us declare that we are alive with enthusiasm and vitality for every good endeavor . . . God love...
...like passive resistance, they had mounted and sustained in the "Cradle of the Confederacy" an almost total boycott of the city's segregated buses (TIME, April 2 ). Led by a handful of well-educated and young Negro leaders-notably by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 27, pastor of a local Baptist church-they had efficiently put together and operated a car pool of some 200 vehicles to ferry themselves to and from work. Now the leaders and lawyers sat glumly in the Montgomery County courthouse waiting for the state circuit court to outlaw the Negro car pool...
...Carey Daniel, pastor of West Dallas' First Baptist Church and brother of Texas' Democratic Senator (and candidate for governor) Price Daniel, offered to turn his church buildings into an all-white school if integration should be forced upon Dallas' public schools. "While correcting the evil of integration," said Pastor Daniel, "we also plan to correct several other evils." Items in the proposed curriculum: condemnation of the United Nations and "oneworld ideology," presentation of evolution "as a damnable heresy and not as scientific fact...