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...Assembly in Portland recently, the tiny (12,500 members), fundamentalist Orthodox Presbyterian Church formally extended a hand of welcome to any who would like to leave the 3,300,000-member United Presbyterian Church. The same gesture was made by the equally small Bible Presbyterian Church, headed by Radio Preacher Carl Mclntire. Both churches clearly hope to swell their ranks with conservative Presbyterians dismayed by the "Confession of 1967," approved in principle at the United Presbyterian General Assembly last May (TIME, June...
President Johnson would never have fired his old friend Reedy, but he did take the occasion of Reedy's departure to upgrade the office of press secretary by appointing Moyers, perhaps his brightest, most trusted young aide, a fellow Texan, an ordained Baptist teacher (not preacher) and, unlike Reedy, a member of the Johnson hierarchy who ranks high enough to participate in top-level policy discussions. As the President obviously figures it, these credentials are more than enough to make up for the fact that Moyers' press experience has been limited, and that he has had almost none...
Throughout the civil rights struggle in Selma, Ala., and on the march to Montgomery, there at Martin Luther King's side was the Rev. Frederick D. Reese, 35, a Baptist preacher and as president of the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL), Selma's own Negro leader for the past two years. Last week a Dallas County grand jury indicted Reese on three counts of embezzlement, charging him with diverting $1,850 of DCVL funds...
...reconciling process has led only to bitter antagonism-at least in Greenville, center of the strike. There, a ministry preacher tells field hands that "the white man is your enemy," and the Delta Project has managed to alienate not merely unswervable segregationists but white and Negro moderates as well...
Three generations of Akers' forebears were Methodist ministers; he was a preacher only at heart. After his stint on the Post-Dispatch, he became a political reporter in Springfield, later moved up to Chicago for the A. P. during gang-war days. In 1937, Akers took a fling at politics himself and wound up as an assistant to Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. But he soon beat a hasty retreat. "Anybody who leaves the newspaper business for a political job," he says now, "is kind of silly...