It was a scene of wild incongruity. On a tennis court near the Bimini Hotel one day last week, Baptist Preacher Adam Clayton Powell led an assemblage of curious cronies, touring Seventh-day Adventists and bemused newsmen in what he solemnly described as an interdenominational service. He took his text from Jeremiah 8:4: "When men fall, do they not rise again?"
It was a fitting question, considering the spectacular fall that Congressman Powell had taken earlier in the week. By an overwhelming majority of nearly 3 to 1, rebellious House members overrode their...
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