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...resounding defeat for incumbent David Hall, 44. The Governor, who won only 27% of the votes, will not even get a chance to compete in the mid-September runoff. That opportunity now goes to first-term Congressman Clem McSpadden, 48, a pop ular singing cowboy and rodeo announcer, and Baptist University Professor David Boren, 33, a Rhodes scholar whose unexpected political ascent is being compared to a prairie fire...
From an early age, Nelson was a different kind of Rockefeller, more outgoing, less cost-conscious than his four brothers. While they tended to reflect their father John D. Jr., a shy philanthropist and devout Baptist, Nelson was closer to his mother Abby, the daughter of the powerful Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich. It was Abby who imbued her son with a tender social conscience and a lifelong love...
...them seminary graduates, whose backgrounds vary widely. The oldest, Jeannette Piccard, 79, piloted many of the stratospheric flights of her late husband, Balloonist Jean Piccard. Marie Moorefield, 30, a graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School and a chaplain trainee at Topeka State Hospital in Kansas, grew up as a Southern Baptist and became an Episcopalian just five years ago. Nancy Hatch Wittig, 28, who is slated to take up duties at a Morristown, N.J., parish this month, is married to a Methodist pastor...
...unostentatious Baptist who stands about 5 ft. 4 in. tall, Allbritton scarcely fits the image of a towering Texas wheeler-dealer. But he is justly credited for what a friend calls "an absolute genius for making money." Born in tiny D'lo, Miss., he founded a savings and loan association after receiving a law degree from Baylor University in 1949; eventually he built a fortune in land, insurance and banking...
John Lewis, 34, dreamed of becoming a Baptist minister as he grew up in Alabama's Pike County, but he changed direction when the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional. As a civil rights worker, this apostle of nonviolence was frequently arrested and beaten. He headed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 until 1966, then added a philosophy degree to one in theology. In 1970 Lewis became head of the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project, which seeks to register black voters. What is happening now is "a revolution," Lewis claims, pointing to the South's more than...