Word: baptiste
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...Nablus, Dr. Fisher, fortified with a strong dose of stomach salts, drank freely from Jacob's Well. (The archbishop, said his staff, was holding up well under the rigors of the Middle Eastern diet.) He looked at the ruins where Salome danced, saw the site where John the Baptist was beheaded. At the River Jordan, the archbishop refused to be totally immersed, instead dipped his foot in the waters...
...Republican John Sherman Cooper, 59, has his stronghold in the eastern Kentucky of miners, moonshiners and McCoys. After an Ivy League education (Yale, Harvard Law), he spent 25 years paying off debts left by his politician father. In and out of the Senate since 1946, strapping Baptist Cooper is one of his party's most distinguished liberals, an ardent supporter of foreign aid and civil rights...
Missouri. A small-town American prototype, moderate Democrat Edward V. Long, 52, is a Baptist deacon who has branched out from a law practice into running two banks, plus several loan and life-insurance companies. In the Senate, stumpy, soft-spoken Ed Long will draw on a generation of political experience (as state senator and lieutenant governor) and the knowledge of foreign affairs that he claims as a widely traveled past director of Rotary International...
Texas (24): Big, Baptist and basically conservative, Texas dislikes Republican Nixon less than it dislikes Democrat Kennedy. NIXON...
...King and his followers rallied that evening in Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church to give thanks to God for his deliverance. The Rev. Dr. King's father stood up at the rally to add his thanks elsewhere: he had planned to vote for Vice President Nixon, he said, because of Jack Kennedy's religion, but from now on he could be counted as a Kennedy man. Said he: "Jack Kennedy has the moral courage to stand up for what he knows is right...