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...worker in U.S. Steel's South Chicago mill: "You really want to revolt, but what can you do? I keep waiting for a miracle-for some guy who isn't born yet-and when he comes we'll follow him like he was John the Baptist." That is a chilling thought, and it only emphasizes the urgency of defeating the inflation that is deflating the dreams of so many Americans...
...people went in to vote, they were given a white card bearing the number five, Leach's line on the ballot. Once they voted, payoffs were usually made in private homes called money houses or in touring vehicles known as floating banks. At a money house next to a Baptist church, haulers pretended to be preparing for a funeral...
...Glenn Igleheart, the "interfaith witness" director of the nation's largest Protestant group, the Southern Baptist Convention, warns against "overreaction" by parents of cult members or by the government. He urges fellow Christians to support "free religious expression" at the same time that they carefully scrutinize new faiths and "speak out against deviant beliefs and abuses against persons." Every new group should be examined carefully, he advises, and measured by such beliefs and practices as "the unquestioned lordship of Jesus Christ, the unimpeded right of each believer to communicate with God and use of the Bible as the norm...
...second round of the tournament on Sunday also failed to provide an opportunity for pendantil scholastism Fitzgibbons remarked, "We played with Houston Baptist and these guys really were lobatomized. They were so wacked out that there was nothing I could do to bring them down to my poor level of play." The unseemly Houston Baptist pair even went so far as to produce a Playboy calendar out of their golf bag on the eighth tee, claiming it would inspire them to play better...
...nominated for Congress in 1968 as a candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party. Newton's defenders argue that these are only the latest clashes in a nearly lifelong battle between Huey Newton and the Oakland police. Even as a teenager, the seventh child of a Baptist minister from Louisiana, Newton acquired a record of arrests for fighting with white policemen. Newton does not deny that he has a hot temper and has often said, "I'm against violence; I'm for self-defense...