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...churches across the country, millions of Americans joined in this traditional hymn and others like it on Easter Sunday. They sang of spiritual rebirth, of renewed hope, of joy in the season. But this was an unusually somber Easter, and many a churchgoer could not forget that half a world away, in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, 50 Americans had begun their sixth month of cruel captivity. They, too, had been promised permission to attend Easter services, to be conducted by three Christian clergymen from the U.S. The clergymen flew from New York City's Kennedy Airport, bearing what...
...Heaven. Carter was scarcely hurt by the affair at the polls. But on the Sunday after the election, King reappeared. He entered the church Sunday-school class without interference. After making a few rejoinders to the deacon who was instructing the group, King was accosted by a churchgoer with a CARTER FOR PRESIDENT button who declared: "There are people who say 'I'm not sure I want to go to heaven because there are niggers up there, and that won't be no heaven.' " About 15 minutes after entering, King was escorted out of the building...
...Mayor John Lindsay, 53, went skating too. Not on thin ice, but at the Rockefeller Center Skating Rink where, with Co-Host Diahann Carroll, 39, he taped an ABC Christmas Eve special, refereed an ice-hockey face-off, then jumped into a sleigh with Diahann to sing (in Sunday churchgoer's baritone) It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas. Taking a break, Lindsay suddenly spun out on the ice and asked a member of the chorus to join him for a Dutch waltz. Said Diahann admiringly: "He's the kind of man to whom you always want...
...observers, the field check becomes critical. A network of 50 defense sympathizers is now investigating every member of the jury panel. One woman, who has already been tripped up, gave open-minded answers in court that contradicted computer predictions. A tip revealed that far from being the regular Methodist churchgoer she claimed to be, she had actually quit her church after an unsuccessful fight to oust a minister she considered too liberal. She was dismissed for cause by Judge Fred Nichol because of her lack of candor...
...White House staff prayer breakfast last week, Colson, 42, revealed a new aspect. He said that he has "come to know Christ." Episcopalian Colson admitted that until recently he had been a regular, but hardly committed churchgoer. But he said that since his departure from the White House he has had "some occasion" to think about religion and "pray with other committed people." Suspecting that his newfound faith may go down hard with some, Tough Guy Colson had a forthright response for scoffers. Said he: "If anyone wants to be cynical about it, I'll pray...