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...groups have had more impact than has one man, Assemblies of God Minister David Wilkerson, whose growing movement began with a single incident: his dramatic conversion of Brooklyn Teen-Age Gang Lord Nicky Cruz in 1958. Cruz himself is now an evangelist. Wilkerson's evangelical and antidrug organization, Teen Challenge, has 53 centers. His book about Cruz's conversion, The Cross and the Switchblade, has sold 6,000,000 copies; a movie version, starring Pat Boone as Wilkerson, will be released nationwide July 1. The book had an unusual side effect: its Pentecostal flavor helped launch the Roman Catholic Pentecostal...
...flourishing. Word, Inc., a record-and-book publishing firm in Waco, Texas, has produced a pair of phenomenal bestsellers on spiritual group dynamics by an Episcopalian oilman named Keith Miller (TIME, Sept. 19). Together they have sold some 700,000 hardback copies. Other evangelical bestsellers stress personal experience. David Wilkerson's The Cross and the Switchblade, for instance, tells of Wilkerson's life as a street minister amid New York City's gangs, and has sold more than 6,000,000 copies, mostly in paperback, in 24 languages. Some 2,900 nondenominational evangelical bookstores...
...reporting Kathy Boudin's parents' refusal to cooperate with the police following the explosion which took three lives and demolished the Wilkerson house [March 23], TIME has accidentally touched on the vital element of America's woes visa-vis "the disenchanted young people...
...appear in court March 16 to answer state charges stemming from the fall rioting. Kathy Boudin, 26, also charged last week, has been missing since a March 6 explosion leveled a Greenwich Village town house that police said militants had been using as a bomb factory. So has Cathy Wilkerson, 25, whose father owned the building. She was named in the indictment as a coconspirator, not a defendant. Two other coconspirators, Ted Gold, 23, and Diana Oughton, 28, were killed in the Manhattan blast...
...bright, attractive children of moderately wealthy families, the youngsters were unlikely by normal standards to have ended up as bombers. But in college they had turned away from traditional values and become increasingly radicalized. Though the pretty, brown-haired Miss Wilkerson attended the best of private schools and Swarthmore College, she seemed also lonely and unsure of herself. "Every time I think of something to explain Cathy," said her mother, who is divorced from Cathy's father (both have remarried), "I think of something that contradicts it. She didn't think much of herself. And she could develop...