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...time and place. Looking back upon the America of the '60s, future historians may well search for the meaning of one such movement. It drew the public's notice on the days and nights of Aug. 15 through 17, 1969, on the 600-acre farm of Max Yasgur in Bethel...
...brought 50 officers to his aid within minutes. But for Worobec's partner, Michael Czapski, it was too late. He lay dying in the street, his body punctured by seven bullets; Worobec himself was seriously wounded. Convinced that some of the shots had come from the nearby New Bethel Baptist Church, the police charged through the doors, firing as they entered. Inside were more than 150 men, women and children attending a meeting of a local black militant group. Before the police fusillade ended, four men were wounded, and all the adults were rounded up and taken to headquarters...
Aretha's father, the Rev. C. L. Franklin, was?and is?pastor of Detroit's 4,500-member New Bethel Baptist Church, where the preaching is so fiery that two white-uniformed nurses stand by to aid overwrought parishioners. Franklin commands up to $4,000 per appearance as a barnstorming evangelist, has recorded 70 steadily selling LPs of his sermons. He may not be a member of the Baptist Ministers Conference, but his Cadillac, diamond stickpins and $60 alligator shoes testify to an eminently successful pastorate. Just how successful is not altogether clear, although when he was convicted last year...
...only other breaks in her routine are visits to her father, her brother Cecil ?now assistant pastor of the New Bethel Church?or sister Carolyn, 23, who leads Aretha's accompanying vocal trio and writes songs for her. Another sister, Erma, 29, is a pop singer living in New York City. Sometimes, with her family, she opens up enough to put on her W. C. Fields voice or do her imitation of Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula ("Goodt eeeeeevnink, Mr. Renfieldt; I've been expectink you!"). But Cecil says: "For the last few years Aretha is simply not Aretha...
Though some churchgoers are perturbed by the secular surroundings of many drive-in services, most of the ministers who have tried preaching to a congregation of cars generally like the idea. They do, however, concede that there are certain inevitable dangers. Half-jokingly, the Rev. John Muller of Bethel Reformed Church, a South Miami drive-in, worries that he will one day mount the pulpit and absentmindedly intone: "Will the autos of the congregation please rise...