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...Kind of Segregation. In districts where blacks are in the majority, however, opening day brought only a new kind of segregation as whites abandoned the public schools to the black invasion. In Natchez, where Baptist churches are pooling their resources to form private schools, a third of the city's 4,500 white students failed to register for classes. In Wilkinson County, where Confederate President Jefferson Davis spent his boyhood and blacks now outnumber whites by at least 3 to 1, only two white children-11-year-old Annette Brown and her brother, Thomas, 10-showed...
...high school, he was successful as a surgeon, a psychology professor, a deputy prison warden and a zoologist. Little has been heard from Ferdinand Waldo Demara since Tony Curtis portrayed him in the 1961 film The Great Impostor. Now he has turned up as the pastor of a small Baptist Church on an island in Puget Sound, near Seattle. His flock of 30 has heard rumors about the Rev. Dr. Fred Demara, as he styles himself, but finds him "a tremendous...
...tall, husky career Army man, Mitchell was one of 15 children of the black pastor of Rasberry Baptist Church in Saint Francisville, La. He entered the Army in 1960 and served in Korea and Hawaii before going to Viet Nam in December 1967. He loved the Army, and recently, when asked to describe himself, replied, "I'm a hell of a soldier." He told a news conference last month that he had seen no massacre at My Lai and doubted that one had taken place. Last week in Washington he said simply, "I am not guilty...
Bruegel's most overtly political pictures are disguised by their ostensible subjects: The Massacre of the Innocents, The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist, The Road to Calvary, and The Conversion of Saint Paul. Safe themes-but not as handled by Bruegel. He trundled the terrible urgency of the Bible, like a siege tower, straight up against contemporary walls. His Massacre, for instance, takes place in a Flemish village of his own day. Walloon redcoats butcher baby after baby on the shining snow. Mothers and fathers pray, scream, struggle and reach out in vain. Spain's notorious "Edict...
Crabtree had worked for Harvard for 35 years, serving with the University police since 1944. He is survived by his wife Lillian, his father I. Thomas Crabtree, and his son W. Thomas Crabtree, Jr. Services will be held at the First Baptist Church in Central Square at 11 a. m. Saturday, January...