Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter's first real post-election test has come in, of all places, his home town of Plains. There, at his country-plain, white Baptist church-a setting all the more dramatic because of its small scale-he had to resolve a controversy that threatened to tarnish his Presidency before it began. The issue: whether blacks would be permitted to join the church. After a membership meeting last Sunday, equality-and Jimmy-emerged as winners; the congregation voted to end race restrictions...
...church-membership drama erupted unexpectedly in the closing days of the campaign. The week before the election, a flamboyant black minister, the Rev. Clennon King, 60, decided to test church policy. Apparently after hearing that Carter said he presumed blacks were eligible for membership, King informed the church that he would apply on Sunday, Oct. 31. He also told the press. Come Sunday, he traveled the 30 miles from his home town of Albany, Ga. (pop. 80,000), only to find the church door locked, services suspended, and the minister, the Rev. Bruce Edwards, awaiting him outside...
...anyone wishing to join. Carter, who said he was proud of his church, played down his own role. Said he: "I was just one of the members." Clennon King exulted that the decision "vindicates the people of Plains." He added that he would be back next Sunday to test the new policy...
...William Simon has put his Virginia estate up for sale and will return to his home in New Jersey and pick up his career on Wall Street, possibly at his old firm, Salomon Brothers, where he was senior partner for eight years. At 48, Simon has ample time to test the political waters for a possible run for Governor in the Garden State...
...SWIM TEST--The widow of Harry Elkins Widener donated her husband's huge fortune and impressive book collection to the University on two conditions: the first, that not a single brick be removed from the Widener Memorial Library, and the second, that every freshman be required to pass a swim test in the IAB pool. Mrs. Widener felt that her son, who died tragically in the sinking of the Titanic, would have lived had he known how to swim...