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Both Helms and Hunt support a sustained military buildup, the MX missile and B-l bomber and stronger conventional forces. They oppose a nuclear freeze. Both back a constitutional amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools...
...that a whole generation has become addicted to the telephone, using it for everything from courtship to Dial-a-Prayer, a new phenomenon is occurring: the indispensable telephone system is beginning to fail us. The failure seems to have started when the A T & T monopoly was broken apart at the start of this year, or maybe it has just got worse since then. Have you noticed how much longer it takes between the time you finish dialing and the time the first ring comes? Or how often you dial and there's no ring...
...FIDDLER SET IS SIMPLE, as is the staging, matching the serious tone o the musical while the simplicity of the stage adds an air of starkness and austerity the actors themselves dazzle the audience. One particularly effective scene is the song "Sabbath Prayer", where the cast is lighting a Sabbath candle. The small circles of light in the darkness are more effective than glittery scenery would...
...radiation treatment she would die within months. But Pamela's father Larry is a minister in the Church of God of the Union Assembly, a fundamentalist sect that does not permit its members to seek medical treatment and counsels them to rely instead on the power of prayer. Despite her dramatic plea seven months ago, the judge ordered hospital care to begin. Last week her doctor an nounced that there was no longer any evidence of the disease. But Pamela's father clings to his belief in the inefficacy of science. "The medi cine didn...
...some Christian sects, opposition to medicine is sweeping: Herbert W. Armstrong, leader of the Worldwide Church of God, calls vaccines "monkey pus" and likens the use of physicians to worship of pagan gods. Christian Science urges its adherents to conquer illness by prayer, but allows them, if they insist, to consult doctors. Jehovah's Witnesses are forbidden blood transfusions but are allowed other medical procedures. Ironically, because Witnesses are permitted to consult doctors, they have been involved in many legal cases: if the ailing child of a church member requires a transfusion after being hospitalized, a court order...