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...member churches in 90 countries. Four out of ten member churches are now in the Third World. At silver jubilee services in Geneva's austere medieval Cathedral of St. Pierre, the preacher who stood in John Calvin's pulpit was W.C.C. General Secretary Philip A. Potter, a West Indian Methodist and a black. When the cathedral organ was silent, Papa O'Yeah MacKenzie, a black drummer from Ghana who wore a leopard-skin jacket, played lively percussion solos...
...wait for dwindling supplies of everything from matches to meat. Militant workers have taken over 30 factories in Santiago's "industrial belt," which produces most of Chile's goods. TIME Contributing Editor James Randall recently toured Santiago and visited one of the captive factories with Reporter Paul Potter. Randall's report...
Pornography, as everyone knows, is -well, what is it? Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once delivered a classic answer, of sorts, by saying that he could not exactly define it, but "I know it when I see it." Ever since, the Justices have been half-jokingly referring erotic works to Stewart to get his instinctive impressions...
...drivers' licenses, but still had to pay $625 per semester as against $175 for state residents. If universally applied, equality of payment would wreak havoc in many state universities, but the Supreme Court did not go that far. While not officially ruling on the broad issue, Justice Potter Stewart declared: "We fully recognize that a state has a legitimate interest in protecting and preserving the quality of its colleges and universities and the right of its own bona fide residents to attend such institutions on a preferential tuition basis...
With holdover Justices Byron White and Potter Stewart also tending toward that view, the court seems to have taken a right turn in criminal cases. As Simon puts it, 4N + X = L.A.O.-that is, four Nixon nominees plus White or Stewart equals law-and-order. Surprisingly, there has been little erosion of desegregation decisions or of one-man, one-vote reapportionment cases. Indeed, "except in the criminal area, the individual rights won under the Warren Court still stand." But, in Simon's judgment, "for the new interest groups, such as environmentalists, the new court direction suggests that they...