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...young graduates of Dallas' Highland Park High School embarked on the most rigorous ordeal of their young lives: the plebe year at the U.S. service academies. Annapolis Midshipman Alton K. Thompson and West Point Cadet Charles Paddock Otstott (who had spent a year at Southern Methodist University) had impressive records to maintain. At Highland Park, both were presidents of their senior class, both were members of the National Honor Society, and both were recipients of the top award given by the National Honor Society for all-round excellence in grades and extracurricular activities...
...issue was the expulsion last March of a Negro divinity-school student, chunky, spectacled James M. Lawson Jr. A Methodist minister, the Rev. Mr. Lawson, 32, was fired after leading sit-in strikers during Nashville's lunch-counter demonstrations. For Dean Nelson and his colleagues. Lawson "came to symbolize a great set of principles-freedom of action, freedom of conscience, the nature of a university and the struggle of the Negro for his rights...
Obey the Law. An advocate of militant passive resistance against segregation. Pennsylvania-born Lawson is the son of a Methodist minister. He served a year in federal penitentiaries as a conscientious objector, later spent three years in I ndia as a missionary and avid student of Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence ("Gandhi helped me to see the Christian life"). To earn a bachelor of divinity degree, he entered Vanderbilt in 1958, organized Negro students on the side...
...monolithic closed society lacks the flexibility to improvise and change its plans. "It is not prepared to go off into new, unplanned fields." says University of Chicago Historian Daniel Boorstin. "But the open society is a world where everything can be tried." Adds Bishop Gerald Kennedy, president of the Methodist Council of Bishops: "The overwhelmingly important strength of a free society is the individual-the lonely man. whether he be in a laboratory, in a church, in his home, who gropes for and finds ideas and then expresses them. This is creativity. This is what a closed society does...
...when a great critic pauses to contemplate an art treasure. Two pictures that were favorites of the judges happened to be snapped by amateurs. Manhattan's William Froelich, an ex-electronics salesman, produced a design of blazing reds in his The Sellers of Holi Powder at Benares. And Methodist Minister W. George Thornton of Titusville, Pa. put two photographs together to create a Dreamboat gliding out of a mist, as if emerging from another world...