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Harrell, 57, is a white-haired former millionaire (mausoleums, real estate) with a radio preacher's voice and the affable manner of a small-town politician. He founded the league's progenitor, the Christian Conservative Churches of America, two decades ago, between a bout with lymph cancer (he won) and his 1960 campaign to be one of Illinois' U.S. Senators (he lost). Shortly after he built this ersatz Mount Vernon-as a tribute to his beloved George Washington and a home for his family of nine-federal agents battered down the gate with an armored personnel carrier...
...McNeese State University (enrollment: 5,500) in Lake Charles, La., the search for a new president ended with the choice of Home-Town Favorite Jack Doland, 51, the university's athletic director and football coach. Said Doland, in a meeting with a search committee: ''Let no one belittle coaching experience in preparation for a position as president...
...Nazis as ''cultural Bolshevism,''Webern stuck it out in Austria, transfixed by the ideal of a triumphant German culture. This decision led indirectly to his bizarre death in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II. Visiting his son-in-law in the town of Mittersill, he was somehow shot during a botched black-market raid being carried out by American G.I.s...
Ronald Reagan came to town with his friends last night. One-time Democrat Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin drew a capacity crowd to the former California governor's fundraiser at the Music Hall...
...however, and many of them are church-oriented schools or military academies. A nearby college that keeps watch on student activities is Gordon College, a small nondenominational Christian school in Wenham, Mass. Drinking, smoking and social dancing are entirely prohibited on campus, although students often do all three in town. Despite the seemingly tight codes, students prefer the rules that way, Steven W. Larson, associate dean of students, says. A poll conducted last year showed that half of the students did not want even dancing on campus. "We come from a fairly fundamentalist background," Larson says. "We are really attempting...