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...Goshon believes in the organizational efficacy of religious zeal. Indeed, Goshorn, 40, chairman of a minicomputer manufacturing company named General Automation, Inc., of Anaheim, Calif., two months ago called together 1,000 of his employees to tell them he was dedicating General Automation to Chris Goshorn, a Southern Baptist who says he was sitting in his front yard one evening in 1969 when he quietly discovered Jesus, read a Bible passage asking his people to "turn from their wicked ways" (II Chronicles 7:14). Some in the startled crowd recall him saying, "The company...
Jimmy who? That derisive question was often asked in Georgia when the peanut farmer and Baptist Church deacon first ran for Governor in 1966, but not when he made it on his second...
...when Calcaterra shouted at him and disappeared into the maze of rooms, corridors and stairways in the upper part of the auditorium. Calcaterra quickly signaled fellow officers on his walkie-talkie, and the Secret Service joined 70 local security officers in sealing off the buildings. In the all-black Baptist gathering, the white man would have stood out, but the influx of dozens of plainclothes white security men preceding the President probably helped him to escape. Ford later addressed the convention without incident. Two bomb threats also were reported in the area but they turned out to be false...
Toward the end of the week, Ford went to St. Louis to attend a $1,000-a-couple G.O.P. fund raiser and address some 8,000 members of the National Baptist Convention of America, a black, religiously conservative church with 6.5 million members. While Ford was being interviewed at television station KMOX, a minor drama was unfolding ten blocks away. Inside cavernous Kiel Auditorium, where the President was scheduled to address the Baptists about one hour later, Patrolman Thomas L. Calcaterra spotted a man standing on a catwalk about 40 ft. above the stage -holding what appeared...
...half of rain in a dry year. Nice, appreciated, but not enough." But Ford likes this kind of campaigning-so much so that he plans to be out of Washington almost every weekend all fall. There will be fund raisers from Newport, R.I., to Seattle, Wash., a Baptist convention in St. Louis and, of course, the University of Michigan's football game against Michigan State...