Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admitted to the bar in Mississippi, whom he met last year while helping Kennedy conduct hearings on poverty in the state; he for the second time; in McLean, Va. Edelman wore an off-white Nehru jacket, former U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg quoted a little Dickens, and the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., Yale's recently convicted antidraft chaplain, read the vows...
With that charge, delivered by the Rev. D. T. Niles, president of the Methodist Church of Ceylon,* the fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches opened last week in the green and gabled Swedish university town of Uppsala. The first such gathering since 1961, the session marked the 20th anniversary of the Council-and also amounted to a crossroads of sorts for the world's largest non-Catholic Christian body...
...unimpoverished individuals paid $45 each in tuition to learn that motivation. The educational effort was the work, appropriately enough, of a Franciscan priest who sent businessmen, skilled laborers, housewives and church workers into the slums of one of the nation's otherwise most serenely sunny cities, Phoenix. The Rev. Gavin Griffith, 31, ran his poverty war college with the strategic aim of simply stirring the conscience of his students. Some of the outsiders shed their uniforms (ties and suits), strolled the streets on the wrong side of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks, where rickety houses lean against each other...
Back to the Indians. The campaign's aim of dramatizing the plight of the poor was defeated in part by the forbearance of the Government. When the Rev. Ralph Abernathy led his flock to trespass on Capitol Hill, Washington police arrested 261 of them almost gently. Another 124 were picked up in the dying shantytown, and their belongings were meticulously catalogued for later retrieval. Even the mules, finally arriving in their 13-wagon train from Mississippi, went to pasture donated by a Washingtonian. There was an abortive riot in the Washington ghetto. But the authorities-particularly Mayor Walter Washington...
...year ago, the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity financed a $927,341 project to attempt to convert the Rangers from evil to good. The Rev. John Fry, a short, tough, idealistic exMarine, ran the pacification program through his First Presbyterian Church in the Woodlawn district on the South Side. He has been involved in church-related slum programs before, and had considerable success in helping to damp down the Chicago riots of 1966. Fry's gym became a Ranger recreation center, and gang members were given training for productive jobs...