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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fislds. In Louisiana, Roman Catholic Priest Albert McKnight. 45, a Brooklyn-born black, has had remarkable success with a rural redevelopment enterprise called the Southern Consumer's Cooperative. It has opened, among other things, a farmers' cooperative, a prosperous fruitcake bakery and a cut-rat; supermarket, and has given local Negroes a strong motivation to join Father McKnight's literacy program. (A former sharecropper, illiterate two years ago, is now the co-op's farm marketing expert.) In Philadelphia, American Baptist Minister Leon Sullivan, another Negro, has pursued the self-help goal on an even larger scale. He is credited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW MINISTRY: BRINGING GOD BACK TO LIFE | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...bodies. Such religious groups could be like the Christian underground or "liberated" churches. Ecumenism may well be halted at the formal institutional level as various denominations grow to cherish their distinctive characteristics all over again. At the same time, there will be more interfaith communication among individuals and among local churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW MINISTRY: BRINGING GOD BACK TO LIFE | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...uncertainty created among those who stayed. "I hope some of them will look into their performance and realize they could do better," says J. Wade Miller, vice president for personnel and organization. But there could be less favorable results for Goodrich, and not only in the loss of local good will in a community that backed the company in its struggle with Northwest. One group of white-collar workers, seeking job security, has asked to join the United Rubber Workers, which already represents 12,500 Goodrich factory hands. The union is now considering a full-scale organizing drive among Goodrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Quiet Purge at Goodrich | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Clausen grew up in Hamilton, Ill., where his father, a Norwegian immigrant, owned and edited the local paper. He studied law at the University of Minnesota (LL.B., '49), and got a part-time job counting cash at the Bank of America while preparing for bar exams. After he passed, he decided to become a banker rather than a lawyer. He rose rapidly through a succession of lending jobs, many of them involving the financing of corporate mergers and takeovers. Clausen owes his big promotion partly to the fact that he is eleven years younger than his chief rival, Executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: New Boss for the Biggest | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...participating countries. The 2,600-mile Mekong, the world's eleventh longest river and one of the least used, rises in the Himalayan plateau of China near Tibet, plunges turbulently through the mountain gorges of Yunnan, and emerges to divide and water the Indo-Chinese peninsula. Local leaders speak lyrically of the Mekong development project, expecting that it could do for Southeast Asia what the Tennessee Valley Authority did for the South-Central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: The Muddied Mekong | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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