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...This morning I went to church. You can learn a lot about the local people's minds by observing them in church. There are two black Presbyterian churches in Annie Manie, and one is just down around the corner from the other, which is here at the school. The one here at the school is for the elite blacks, the teachers and principals of the county. The one down around the corner is for the rest of the black people. This morning I went to the one down around the corner...
Across the street from the courthouse, the Presbyterian church serves as a center of community support. On the evening of the second day of the trial, Attorney William Kunstler spoke to a crowd of 700 in the church hall. Of the defendants and their action he said...
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (NET): "You make each day a special day by just your being you," announces Fred Rogers on each show. The message could be written in Karo syrup, but behind the modulated tones there is a calculation and a moral. Rogers, 41, is an ordained Presbyterian minister with ten years of broadcasting experience. His goal, he says, is to "help children recognize jealousy, rage, sadness and trust as facets of loving and being loved." His NET program is, in the deepest sense, a Christian show, aimed at a reassurance and realization. A typical song speaks of nakedness, "some...
Reubin Askew, a straight-arrow Democrat, took the starch out of Florida's rumbustious Governor Claude Kirk: "Government by antics," Askew cried, and 57% of the voters agreed. Askew is a refreshingly different newcomer to politics: a Presbyterian elder and a nonsmoking teetotaler who once said his favorite hobby is going to church. Kirk had managed to split the Republicans by pushing Judge G. Harrold Carswell into the U.S. Senate primary against Representative William Cramer...
...Southern states moved toward moderation on the race issue. Georgia replaced Lester Maddox with another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, a wealthy peanut farmer; South Carolinians chose Democratic Lieutenant Governor John West-a lawyer and, like Florida's Askew, a staunch Presbyterian-rather than Republican Representative Albert Watson, a racist with strong backing from Strom Thurmond and Spiro Agnew. Said one relieved voter: "South Carolina has moved from the Deep South to the upper South...