Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drink or smoke, and I only chase one woman," says Harry Shuler Dent, and no one disputes the point. A South Carolina lawyer with brown-green eyes and an aw-shucks manner, Dent, 39, is a devout Baptist, a Sunday-school teacher, a lay preacher and the founder of the Senate staff prayer-breakfast group...
...investment. After quitting the Army, Moody won only $12,950 in his rookie season. Despondent, he went for advice to Jim Hiskey, a former tour golfer now assigned to the President's leadership and prayer breakfast program. "He directed me to the Bible," says Moody, a Baptist who never smokes, "and taught me to say things to myself so I won't get nervous...
Leon H. Sullivan, D.D., pastor of Zion Baptist Church, Philadelphia; founder of the Opportunities Industrialization Center...
...polite but unequivocal rebuff from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and Jewish organizations opposed the reparations plan but favored "massive Government aid." Even Negro church leaders expressed skepticism over Forman's demands. The Black Manifesto, said Rev. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A., Inc., the nation's largest Negro religious group (reported membership: 6.2 million), carries "as firm a message for the destruction of the United States of America as has ever been given...
...could kill a man in a second. After you see how vicious the V.C. can be, it's hard to separate yourself from it." Some genuinely heroic acts, on the other hand, are forced simply by the nature of the war. The Rev. Jerry Autry, 28, a Baptist chaplain from Princeton, S.C., once landed near a Viet Cong village with a platoon of green soldiers commanded by an equally green lieutenant. When they froze, Autry rallied them and led the charge. Autry carries a weapon only because he has to. Like many chaplains who go on patrols...