Religion: Words & Works

¶ In the steel-boom area of the Delaware Valley in Bucks County, Pa., a group of Quakers set up a project that would have warmed the spirit of William Penn: a development of 140 ranch houses at Concord Park, not less than half to be reserved for Negroes. Nearby Levittown (with 10,000 homes) and the somewhat smaller Fairless Hills, serving the same steel area, do not permit Negroes.

¶ The U.S. is threatened from within as well as from without, said the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. in a statement issued after their annual meeting in Washington, D.C. "The enemy...

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