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...Albert Gore Jr. '69 (D-Tenn) yesterday joined a growing list of Democratic presidential hopefuls, calling on the nation to "turn to youth, to vigor and to intellectual capacity." Gore's announcement, made at a press conference in Washington, ended several weeks of speculation on whether the 39-year-old would run for the nation's top office...
...growing pressure for public financial accountability from all religious broadcasters who solicit funds over the airwaves . . . The personal life-styles of those who appeal for sacrificial support will also come under more scrutiny by the churches and by a skeptical society." To Presbyterian Minister Ben Haden of Chattanooga, Tenn., a pastor and radio-TV speaker, such changes will be good for evangelism: "The No. 1 stumbling block to the unbeliever about the Christian faith is not the Cross or the Second Coming or the Virgin Birth. It is the money angle...
Last week, when the Austin Peay Governors came home to Clarksville, Tenn., overtime losers to Providence after conquering Illinois, the whole town met them at the interstate in a caravan complete with fire engine and mayor. Senior Forward Bob Thomas missed the foul shot that would have won the Providence game in regulation, and the anguished picture of him leaving the court is one of the tableaus of the tournament. Thomas was the last player to get up to speak to the caravan, but he never got anything out for all the cheering...
Better credentials would certainly add tighter tone. Still, there is no doubt that massage has shed its shady image, even deep in the Bible Belt South. Five years ago, when Therapist Michele Marie Balliet arrived in Murfreesboro, Tenn., "they pictured the places beside I-40 that say MASSAGE," she recalls. Today, though, it seems as if the whole town is beating a path to her table. Not just the doctors, lawyers and bankers, but the factory workers, farmers and handicrafters. Balliet takes cash for her services but occasionally accepts other down-home forms of payment: six dozen eggs, handwoven baskets...
Some administrators say that the officialcandidates include several well-known, liberalalumni. Specifically they point to Sen. AlbertGore Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) who is a strong advocate ofSouth African sanctions and Frances FitzGerald'61, who is a member of the editorial advisoryboard of the leftist political journal, TheNation...