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...greatest man in the world today?" Abraham Aaron Roback, onetime Harvard instructor, thinks he knows. Roback has never seen him, but for five years he has been working on a book to honor him, "a man without parallel, in our generation." The great man's name: Albert Schweitzer...
...Chinese-American student Helen Gong: Schweitzer improved wayward students' characters...
...Miami News Editorialist Francis P. Locke argued that to fire Schweitzer verged on tyranny. Next day he wrote: "A sad blow to the ideals for which we are fighting . . . flesh and blood and bones of democracy . . . torn, spilled and crushed...
...Miami Herald, on the other hand, advised Schweitzer's dismissal, though expressing respect for his convictions. Terry's co-Legionnaires at the hearing expressed no respect. Florida's ex-Vice Commander Al Lambert wanted "redblooded teachers." Miami Beach Post Chaplain Elmer Warren darkly declared: "Dade County is on trial here...
...Schweitzer's chances seemed dark. Local observers thought that Terry wanted a way to recoup political prestige lost when Governor Spessard Holland ousted from the School Board Terry's henchman Russell F. Hands, who had been found drunk and naked in a Miami hotel with a woman in a like state. Terry dominates the School board...