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...Negroes to join "by the thousands" in a demonstration of "peaceful good will." Far from resisting, city officials fell all over themselves in their hurry to help out. Police all but urged upon King a permit to parade the five blocks to the county courthouse from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where King was pastor when he first made a national name for himself as leader of a bus boycott (TIME cover...
...effortless, flawless soprano swooped and soared above Strauss's heavy, quirky orchestration even when she was writhing on the floor to entice the lecherous Herod. Her phrasing was impeccable, her tone as silver-pure as a Nordic winterscape. Even John the Baptist would have lost his head...
...clergymen who asked the FCC to deny Mclntire's seminary a broadcasting license seemingly felt ill at ease. "I must confess that in the interest of fairness this man's point of view should be heard," wrote the Rev. Manuel C. Avila Jr. of the Springfield, Pa., Baptist Church. But Avila thought that Mclntire should not have the right to control the entire broadcasting content of a station. The complaints say that Mclntire is grossly biased and twists facts, but the FCC notes that he offers the individuals he attacks time on his programs to rebut the charges...
...Negro churches bombed and burned in Mississippi. By year's end the committee had collected $50,000, much of it from within the state. Help came in other ways too. A group of students, mostly from Ohio's Oberlin College, arrived to help rebuild the Antioch Baptist Church near Ripley. Other students from as far away as Pennsylvania and California showed up in other towns to work with local volunteers, both white and Negro. Some local contractors donated materials. By last week, six Negro churches had been completely rebuilt...
...committee's acts of good will have already begun to change the climate in the state. A fortnight ago, the president of the Mississippi Bankers Association, a Methodist, called on citizens "to obey the law, keep in step with the times." Last fall the Mississippi Baptist Convention appealed for an end to "injustices heaped upon Negroes...