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...made it their business to be ornamental and decorously vague in their public utterances. The quiet, rather private Betty Ford may seem an unlikely candidate to break that tradition, although she has in the past stated some very definite opinions. But last week, after a television interview, newspaper columnists, Baptist divines and Republican elders were earnestly debating Mrs. Ford's ideas about sex and morality...
...Honest. Mrs. Ford's forthrightness immediately stirred up a summer storm of old-fashioned indignation. Dr. W.A. Criswell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the largest Southern Baptist congregation, declared himself "aghast" and added: "I cannot think that the First Lady of this land would descend to such a gutter type of mentality." Mormon Elder Gordon B. Hinckley called a press conference to support "chastity before marriage and fidelity after marriage." New York's Governor Hugh Carey, a Roman Catholic with twelve children, unctuously observed: "I guess I believe, in the words that Frankie [Sinatra] sings...
...country, KNTV does not adhere to the National Association of Broadcasters' stuffy code of ethics, which bans over-the-counter contraceptive commercials. But it had aired the Trojans ad only after testing it on the station's own employees, including a Jew, a Catholic and a Baptist, all of whom found it inoffensive. After the viewer protests, however, KNTV General Sales Manager Jack Yearwood pulled the spot...
Racism and Greed. If ever pop music claimed a child prodigy, it was young Gladys Knight. When she was four, her eager contralto, frequently on key, resonated through the adult ranks of Atlanta's Mt. Moriah Baptist Church choir. Three years later she won the $2,000 first prize on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour with a humid rendition of Too Young. When another cousin, James ("Pip") Wood heard Gladys and the boys sing, he encouraged them to turn professional and gave them his nickname. In 1954 they were booked into Atlanta's Royal Peacock Supper...
Give Alms. The son of A. Willis Robertson, U.S. Senator from Virginia for two decades, Pat graduated from Yale Law School, failed his bar exam and went into the electronics business. Raised a Southern Baptist, he was restless and unhappy until at 26 he decided to become a minister and studied at New York City's Biblical Seminary. There he became involved with Pentecostalists who were claiming baptism of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. He also became something of a fanatic: he sold nearly everything he and his wife owned when she was away. His explanation...