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Back in his Harlem pulpit for the first time in four months, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, 62, told the 2,500 faithful in his Easter congregation that he was retiring. It might have been more of a shock-Powell has been pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church since 1937-but the ex-Congressman's stock has fallen nearly as low in the church as it has in politics. Not long ago, for example, he tossed his wallet onto the Communion table and offered to bet $1,000 that nobody in the congregation could prove to him that...
...encouraging universities to offer a solid background in ethical studies for "every scientific professional." At the Texas Medical Center in Houston, a similar interdisciplinary effort has been started by the Institute of Religion and Human Development and the Baylor College of Medicine. The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has developed a thorough adult-education course on biomedical issues as one of its electives for this spring...
...flight of whites from the city proceeded apace (71% of the 756,000 residents are now blacks), this absence of franchise came to take on racial overtones. At least the beginnings of a remedy were provided last week with the election of Walter E. Fauntroy, 37, a black Baptist minister, as the capital's first Representative in 96 years.*With one hand clenched in a Black Power salute and the other raised in a "V" peace sign, the ebullient Democrat swept 58.5% of the vote to outdistance John Nevius (25%), a white Republican attorney, and four other black candidates...
...cash and tax relief of $1,920,000. It was the second highest price ever paid by the museum for a work of art, topped only by the $2,240,000 paid for Leonardo da Vinci's cartoon of the Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Anne...
Meanwhile, the women- now over 150 strong- marched down Mass Ave. to the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, often used as a meeting place by Bread and Roses, a Cambridge-based women's liberation group. The marchers circled the Square, spray-painting cars, walls, and sidewalks with the biological female symbol and liberation slogans. "The people are the great ocean- they cannot be contained," one banner read...