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Flynt often invoked patriotic values and praise for the United States in his speech. Though he said he spends 20 hours a week reading every letter sent to Hustler, he added "I still get chills when somebody recites the Gettysburg Address...
...cloth intrigued by that figure was the Rev. J. Russell Hale, a professor of church and society at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa. Hale, 58, decided to try to find out why so many people prefer to be unchurched. Doing so he logged 30,000 miles by air, auto, foot and boat, even visiting almost inaccessible "hollers" in West Virginia and a topless bar near Sarasota, Fla. He lived for a month in each of six counties ranked by Glenmary as among the country's most irreligious.* Though social conformity makes church shunners tend to keep their views...
...lose that battle for lack of trying. Selling the treaty is the top item on the President's agenda-an all-out effort to score a clear-cut foreign policy success amid a series of setbacks. "Carter is deploying his lieutenants the way George Gordon Meade did at Gettysburg," says a Pentagon officer who has briefed Congressmen on the treaty. "And that was a hell of a fight...
...First Child, decked out in her best long party dress, turned up as her parents' guest at a state dinner with something to read while she ate. At last week's party for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, she pored over The Story of the Gettysburg Address and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Her dinner partner, Senator Edmund Muskie, gently interrupted her reading to coax her to eat her spinach timbale. Later, with a flourish, Amy gave Muskie a souvenir-her place card, on which she had inscribed EAT YOUR SPINACH. Perhaps Amy will start a trend...
...attendance there was up 36% over last year. San Francisco's cable cars are jammed, and waits for rides can take 20 minutes. Near Los Angeles, a one-hour wait to tour Universal Studios is not uncommon, and the Sheraton-Universal Hotel is filled to capacity. Visitors to Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania face a two-hour wait on weekends for one of the 77 guides; 2 million toured the historic Civil War battleground in July-a 40% increase from last year...