Word: portsmouth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of gaffe that has helped sink previous presidential campaigns: Barry Goldwater's 1964 proposal to make Social Security voluntary and George McGovern's 1972 recommendation that the Government pay every American $1,000 a year. Above an editorial at tacking the scheme, New Hampshire's Portsmouth Herald last week carried the headline REAGAN DIGS HIS OWN GRAVE. Although federal taxes would be decreased, Gerald Ford's campaign aides-and Democrats-point out that state and local taxes would soar...
...Portsmouth, Durkin gained about 1200 votes over his November showing while Wyman's total dropped...
This is the 700 Club, televised five times a week from Portsmouth, Va., for a growing audience in 38 cities. Says Marion Gordon ("Pat") Robertson, the M.C.: "The idea of programming a simple person, Jesus, as show biz is antipathetical, but people in modern society are accustomed to a certain amount of show. We have to do it to get people to listen to his message...
...camera, Robertson, 45, is president of the Christian Broadcasting Network, which owns stations in Dallas and Atlanta as well as Portsmouth. There are also 35 affiliated stations round the country on which Robertson buys time to air the 700 Club and his other Christian programs ranging from Bible lessons to Jesus rock. The network is uniquely successful among religious channels, most of which operate primarily with unpaid amateurs and shoestring budgets. So did Robertson at first, but he now has a $10.2 million budget...
...shortly after that event, he felt the call to go back home to Virginia. While his wife and two children subsisted mainly on donated soybeans, he tried to raise enough capital to buy and equip a defunct TV station in Portsmouth that he hoped to turn into a Christian voice. His first attempt failed, but finally, through gifts and loans, Robertson launched the station, which he christened WYAH, for Yahweh. By 1961 he was on the air with one camera and a 2½-hour program of preaching and country hymns...