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...find Research Executive Win Arn's thinking that the success of a Billy Graham crusade depends on the number of people who join churches [Jan. 23] ambiguous. I am a convert to Christianity with the help of Graham's preaching and am not a church member. The man does preach the truth, and one who is willing to face the truth will know that...
...phalanx of Lion cagers spearheaded by ballhandler Alton Byrd. Harvard's Achilles heel, though, proved to be an inability to hit from the free-throw line as both teams shot nearly 50 per cent from the field. Harvard hit only 6-16 from the charity stripe and failed to convert on four one-on-one opportunities in the first half, while Columbia sank 17-24 in the pivotal Ivy contest...
...often crude, even downright scatological sounds captured on record--all these ingredients first sold me on Monty Python several years ago. Indeed, I credit the comedy troupe's Monty Python's Previous Record with having taught me the true, wrenched-gut meaning of a guffaw. The divine mission to convert friends to the joys of these whacked-out Britons soon followed this revelation; I had heard the true sound of comedy, and it had a funny accent...
...that when he is finished being President, he'd like to become a foreign missionary for the Baptist Church. It would be his goal in such a role, said the President, "to turn some country back to God and back to us." The President may get his chance to convert all those pagans out there before he thinks...
China's production, although modest in comparison with its estimated reserves, has multiplied roughly six times in the past decade. In 1977, by Western estimates, it reached 1.8 million bbl. a day, edging ahead of Indonesia in output. Because they are beginning to convert their industries from coal to oil. the Chinese keep most of the oil for themselves. Only 10% of the nation's production is exported, mostly to Japan to finance the purchase of much-needed industrial and technological equipment. China's aim is to quadruple production, to roughly 8 million...