Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korean units; last week they killed two soldiers -one of them an American-and wounded five more. Ho is also training a special force of 2,400 commandos who operate in small teams, slipping across the border for hit-and-run sabotage and terrorism. Watching for them on the southern side are 12,000 U.S. troops of the 2nd Division, who guard the 18.5-mi. American sector, and 250,000 South Korean troops, who patrol the rest of the 151-mi. DMZ. To help slow down the Communists, an 11-ft.-high chain-link and wire fence runs the length...
...terms of total numbers involved, in the entire history of American Protestantism, the new body has a combined membership of slightly more than 11 million (10.3 million Methodists and 745,000 United Brethren). It thus becomes the U.S.'s second largest Protestant body, outnumbered only by the Southern Baptist Convention...
Erasing the Vestiges. The United Methodist Church inherits by necessity the problems of the Methodist Church, most significantly its racially segregated organization.* White-run Methodist churches in the South have been al lowed by their denomination to bar Negroes from membership; as a result, Southern communities often have separate white and Negro Methodist congregations. The new denomination eliminates the Central Jurisdiction, a euphemism for a segregated administrative arm that has overseen most Negro Methodist churches. But it still retains ten all-Negro Methodist conferences in the South as separately administered units. The planners of the new church body have...
...included in the merger is the Southern Methodist Church, a small branch of Methodism that boasts some 10,000 members, mostly in South Carolina. Southern Methodist University was founded by the Methodist Church, and the term Southern refers to its geographical location, not its affiliation...
Inflated Appraisals. The original Bellehurst fell victim to sales trouble, financial high jinks and a complex legal battle. Southern California Developer Cliff S. Jones paid $4,530,000 in 1956 for a hog farm on the border of Los Angeles and Orange Counties and laid grand plans for wrapping his 906-acre community around a 27-hole golf course. Los Coyotes Country Club was quickly completed, but a five-month plasterers' strike left Jones with house after unfinished house he could not sell. After the strike was settled, Jones was unable to resume construction. The Federal Home Loan Bank...