Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...reminded North Carolinians that he had lived in the South, indeed had spent three years at the Duke University Law School in Durham. N.C., and knew that civil rights are "a difficult and complex problem." He had a forthright answer to a question about the Southwide Negro sit-in movement begun in Greensboro last February: "Any American is entitled to go into a store to buy products, and should have the same right as any other American to use all the facilities of that store without discrimination." And without saying anything to lose any Negro votes, he got over...
Instead, he sang the praises of the hand-picked "Mutual Help" Assembly with which he has replaced Indonesia's former elected Parliament and glowed over the new National Front, a "nonpolitical" movement consisting of Sukarno's own Nationalist Party, the inept Moslem Teacher's Party and the dazed Communists, who find Sukarno even more disruptive than they are. The National Front, Sukarno predicted, would always reach unanimous agreement on everything "without taking votes." Then, as a lesson to those who still thought there might be something in voting, he abruptly announced a ban against two of Indonesia...
...Central Committee also learned that the Vatican, which had refused to send official representatives to the World Council general assemblies at Amsterdam in 1948, and Evanston, Ill. in 1954, had recently created a secretariat for Christian unity to keep in touch with the ecumenical movement. The secretary of the new body, Msgr. Johannes Willebrands, was present at the St. Andrews meeting with another Catholic observer...
Quick to welcome the growing friendliness between Vatican and World Council under Pope John XXIII, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America and chairman of the Central Committee, observed that "there is little doubt that . . . the Vatican has come to see that the ecumenical movement is not inspired by a vague humanitarianism but by the basic Christian convictions...
...junior. He was the first Negro to be pledged to the predominantly Jewish fraternity of Pi Lambda Phi. A devoutly religious member of the Swedish Mission Covenant church, he spoke constantly before church groups, was a leader of "Youth for Christ.'' a nondenominational national campus movement...