Word: calling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Airborne Advice. They had a clutch of Texas Congressmen's wives for company and one male: Warren Woodward, manager of Lady Bird's TV station in Austin. "Woody can find anything from lost luggage to a masseur," explained Lady Bird. "I call him my vice president in charge of strange activities." But there was no doubt about who was running the road show. All the way West. Lady Bird exercised her soft Southern drawl delivering feline vignettes on the people the girls would meet. ("She's never been a friend and never will be, but I hope...
Truce. By week's end business was far below normal in Jacksonville, Governor LeRoy Collins had alerted the National Guard, and the city's 400-man police force was enforcing an uneasy truce. N.A.A.C.P. agents, in town to call off further sit-ins and to try to keep Negro gangs under control, blamed the situation on Jacksonville's stubborn segregation. Despite his police chief's report that "all the fellows we arrested were local boys," Mayor Burns insisted that the trouble had been started by whites from out of town. Whoever was right, the promise...
...slapped one of the Congo's few educated politicians, Puna Party President Jean Balikango, into jail on charges of making secessionist speeches. But even if by such tactics Lumumba succeeded in making himself a dictator in Leopoldville, he still had a long way to go before he could call himself master of his nation. From the lower Congo came word of mutinies among army units discontented with weeks of no pay or supplies. In the boondocks town of Moerbeke, an armed civilian mob set upon U.N. Moroccan troops. Breaching Hammarskjold's no-gunfire rule, the Moroccans opened fire...
Other Southern newspapers have buried or ignored integration stories before, but seldom have they met such angered reaction. All three Houston papers underestimated the ability of Houstonians to find out the news for themselves. The papers were besieged with angry calls. "I am opposed to integration," said one woman, "but I would rather have integrated lunch counters than controlled news." To call ers, Oveta Gulp Hobby's Post blandly replied that the blackout had been taken as "another public service of the Post to insure public safety." But for all their intentions of doing good by stealth, the Post...
Canon Dewar's own original interpretation of the working of the Holy Spirit is that His field of operation is the unconscious, where He can make Himself felt in terms of what the parapsychologists call "psi phenomena"-clairvoyance, telepathy, psychokinesis, etc.-as well as in everyday life, the source of what the Christian calls his "conscience." Nor, in Canon Dewar's thinking, is the Holy Spirit limited to Christians...