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...poor into practicing contraception, a number of influential Protestant leaders went on record to assert that they were all for birth control. In a letter to President Johnson, Welfare Secretary John Gardner, and Sargent Shriver of the OEO, the secretary of the United Presbyterians' General Council, Dr. Theophilus Taylor, stated his denomination's support for federal birth control programs, and labeled the bishops' charge as "completely unfounded...
Awaiting King in Birmingham was Public Safety Commissioner Theophilus Eugene ("Bull") Connor, a man who was to become a symbol of police brutality yet who, in fact, merely reflected the seething hatreds in a city where acts of violence were as common as chitlins and ham hocks. As it happened, Bull Connor was running for mayor against a relative moderate, Albert Boutwell. To avoid giving campaign fuel to Connor, King waited until after the April 2 election. Between Jan. 16 and March 29, he launched himself into a whirlwind speaking tour, made 28 speeches in 16 cities across the nation...
...most Birmingham Negroes, just beating the city's tough police commissioner, Theophilus Eugene ("Bull") Connor, in his bid for mayor seemed a major triumph. It was the Negro vote that gave former Lieutenant Governor Albert Boutwell a narrow margin of victory in the April 2 election. Connor had become such a symbol of the nightstick solution to race problems that local Negroes felt certain that they could deal more successfully with Boutwell, even though he is a segregationist...
...Excellence. The bill failed, but it echoed the inglorious 1940s, when the university regents fired able President Homer Rainey, who had accused them of imperiously firing facultymen with a total disregard for academic freedom. The regents replaced Rebel Rainey with a tamer president, Zoologist Theophilus S. Painter, who devoted himself to fruit-fly research. They also dumped famed Author J. Frank Dobie, Texas' top folklorist, who refused to stop protesting the Rainey firing. By the time Texas-born Logan Wilson became president in 1953, the eyes of U.S. scholars were on Texas as a good place to avoid...
Nigeria's Theophilus Okonkwo, Uganda's Andrew Amar and Togo's Michel Ayih were among the first 1,000 students to arrive in Russia after the Communists began wholesale recruiting of African students three years ago. Turning up in Frankfurt last week, they told reporters that they and scores of others were leaving Moscow "disgusted" at Communist pressure. "Students from all over Africa and the Near East," they said, "are finding in Moscow that they are merely being used as agents of Soviet power politics." They said that students from 14 African countries met secretly in Moscow...