Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officers to his aid within minutes. But for Worobec's partner, Michael Czapski, it was too late. He lay dying in the street, his body punctured by seven bullets; Worobec himself was seriously wounded. Convinced that some of the shots had come from the nearby New Bethel Baptist Church, the police charged through the doors, firing as they entered. Inside were more than 150 men, women and children attending a meeting of a local black militant group. Before the police fusillade ended, four men were wounded, and all the adults were rounded up and taken to headquarters...
...funeral-parlor escapism. The Southern California-Arizona Conference of the United Methodist Church has told ministers to urge burial from a church rather than a mortuary, to recommend a minimum of ceremony, and to expect no remuneration for presiding. In Detroit, the Rev. Dr. Jack Rollings of Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle has set a limit of 15 minutes on his eulogies. "I remember a time," he says, "when if you didn't speak for 30 minutes, it meant you didn't care for the deceased." Episcopal Canon Howard Johnson of Alhambra, Calif., insists that caskets should be closed...
...SOUTHERN BAPTIST HOUR (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). A look at religious themes in great art masterpieces on "Art and the Bible" with Aline Saarinen from Washington's National Gallery...
Dubious Victory. All foreigners, including some Americans, were interrogated. Jack Holcomb, a 40-year-old Florida businessman suspected of having undue influence over Webster, was deported, vigorously protesting his innocence. The Rev. Freeman Goodge, pastor of the Anguilla Baptist Church, was questioned about alleged connections with the Mafia. His home was searched, he reported. "They went through the chicken coop, even searched my wife's underwear and went through a new Bible leaf by leaf...
...also have a religious wing in this group who suspect that English-American children who are brought up in Southern Baptist churches perceive things differently and might really deserve the top spot upon the pyramid. Southern-English-American-Episcopalians regard these assertions with a great deal of amusement. But who really knows? We all will if the ethnic learning line of research is extended logically to include every possible ethnic, regional and religious stock...