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Furthermore, I am in favor of the civil rights movement. But I feel that the rush of clergy to join it in the 'sixties can be, and in many cases is, of purely secular origin. For a Massachusetts Baptist to be pro-integration, as for an Alabama Baptist to be prosegregation, may be nothing more than a response to what the society around him expects of him. Sociologist Peter L. Berger develops this theme at length in The Noise of Solemn Assemblies, Doubleday, 1961. The whole raison d'etre of Protestant Christianity lies in obedience to an authoritative divine revelation...
...year term as the first chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an agency created under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The board begins its official function on July 2, investigating specific complaints of job discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin or sex among labor unions or employers with 25 or more workers. Beyond "informal methods of conference, conciliation and persuasion," the commission cannot do much about intransigent violators except to wait for already overworked Civil Rights Division lawyers in the Justice Department to bring suits...
Miss Caroline won the award for a diary she wrote entitled "Notes on My Twentieth Year." Awards were also made to Grace A. Gregory '66, for a paper "The Origin and Formation of Meteorites," Elisabeth L. Hackner '65, for a poem "Beaufort, 1898," and Anne Hebald '66, for a paper "The Sun, Line and Cave Allegories in the Republic of Plato: A Cyclical Theory." Honorable mentions went to Caroline G. Balderston '66 and L. Ann Cameron...
...mystery of the man -gilt-bound tomes of Balzac and Schiller next to a pile of toys that he amuses himself with: a soccer game, a Yo-Yo, a gun that shoots pingpong balls. And everywhere there are model train locomotives, which he collects in honor of his origin. He used his earnings of about $2,800 per performance to buy an $80,000 walled-in villa tucked away in the mountains above Monte Carlo, where he spends two or three months out of the year...
...independent nation" but half of the nation of Vietnam as stated in the Geneva accords. Secondly, the White Paper's hard evidence of North Vietnamese intervention was limited to 179 weapons from the Communist bloc captured over an 18-month period and six infiltrators of North Vietnamese origin in seven years...