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...this rueful notice to readers: "It is impossible to present any adequate summary of the findings without giving unnecessary offense to many in [our] large family of readers . . . For those who want it," the Bulletin added helpfully, "the book itself will be available next month." Slightly less timid, the Raleigh Times ran no story but offered galley proofs of the wire-service account to any readers who wanted them, gave away more than 900 by week...
Married. Dr. John Raleigh Mott, 88, elder statesman of Protestantism, Methodist layman, honorary president of the World Council of Churches and the World's Alliance of the Y.M.C.A., and a 1946 Nobel Peace Prizewinner; and Agnes Peter, 73, great-great-great granddaughter of Martha Custis Washington; he for the second time (his first wife, Leila White Mott, died last year), she for the first; in Georgetown...
Proud Britons acclaimed the ascent of Everest as an achievement of the race that bore Raleigh, Nelson and Rhodes. To Asians it quickly became the personal-and national-triumph of a nut-brown little Sherpa who cannot read or write but who has grappled oftener with Everest (eleven expeditions) than any man alive...
Priests preached no sermons last Sunday in the Roman Catholic diocese of Raleigh, N.C. Instead, they read a letter from Bishop Vincent S. Waters ending in one stroke all racial segregation in the Catholic churches of his diocese...
...state here as emphatically as I can," wrote Virginia-born Bishop Waters, "that there is no segregation of races to be tolerated in any Catholic church in the diocese of Raleigh. The pastors are charged with the carrying out of this teaching and shall tolerate nothing to the contrary . . . Equal rights are accorded, therefore, to every race . . . and within the church building itself everyone is given the privilege to sit or kneel wherever he desires . . . I am not unmindful, as a Southerner, of the force of this virus of prejudice among some persons in the South, as well...