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...years is heavily flavored with the tiny routines of being nice. Grace at every meal, prayer and Bible reading, personal notes, Willie Nelson on the stereo, the leafy glens of Camp David, three miles of jogging in the cool summer mornings, Sunday school in the balcony of the First Baptist Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Assessing a Presidency | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...comes out to 50% because of me." There was Jimmy near the top of his high school class; Billy, by his own account, next to the bottom. Jimmy the Navy officer; Billy the Marine sergeant. Jimmy the Governor; Billy the gas station owner. Jimmy the straitlaced, born-again Baptist; Billy the laid-back, foul-mouthed redneck. Jimmy the President; Billy the family embarrassment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Fraternal Rivals | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...almost any circumstances, Walter's attorney will argue that his future would be seriously jeopardized by being forced to return to the Soviet Union. In Chicago, most observers regret the confrontation between parent and child, family and state. As Kathy Bereza, a member of Chicago's Ukrainian Baptist Church, said: "We have sympathy for both sides. It is a tragedy. If only Michael Polovchak had given himself more of a chance to find out about life here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Here Is Better | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...dramatize his sermon against Communism last year, Minister Jim Powell had several uniformed men rush into the First Baptist Church in Daingerfield, Texas, and fire blank cartridges. Thus most of the 350 worshipers in the church last week thought it was just another example of play-acting when Alvin Lee King III, 46, burst in as the congregation was singing More About Jesus. King was wearing Army fatigues, a flak jacket and helmet, and carrying an arsenal: an AR-15 rifle with a bayonet, an M-1 rifle, a pearl-handled .22-cal. pistol and a .38-cal. pistol. Slung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: This Is War! | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...against him at the urging of a friend, Stanley Sinclair, 20, son of a Methodist minister. The following month Sinclair was stabbed to death in Houston. King, who was scheduled to go on trial for incest last week, asked several townspeople who happened to be members of the First Baptist Church to testify as character witnesses; all refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: This Is War! | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

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