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Under a globe-shaped clock stopped at 5 minutes to 12, some 850 delegates from 68 countries and more than 4,000 other members of the church kept things moving at a fast pace, in keeping with Adventist belief that the end of the world is just around the corner. San Francisco hardly knew they were there; after each session the austere, nondrinking, non-smoking Adventists faded quietly into their small hotels and motels...
Bolt the Door. In the Sinclair version, Heroine Pamela Andrews is a prim, pretty, barefoot goat-girl, a devout Seventh Day Adventist who lives with her mother in a tarpaper shack in the California desert. One day in the 19205 a plush black limousine breaks down slap outside the Andrews home, and its owner, an idle-rich sponsor of radical causes named Margaret Harries, stops off long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century...
Then fall came and the trouble started. The town discovered that the Levisons were not sending seven-year-old Carolyn to school. Instead, Mrs. Levison was teaching her at home. The Levisons explained that they were Seventh-Day Adventists and that as far as they could see, their religion was strict on the matter. Said Mrs. Levison, quoting an Adventist text: "Parents are the best teachers of their children until they are eight to ten. Small children should be left free as lambs to run out of doors." As a former college student, Mrs. Levison thought she was fully qualified...
Robert Salau of the Seventh Day Adventist Church arrived in New York City last week for his first look at a strange land; Pastor Salau is a missionary among his own people of the Solomon Islands. Above his grave, calm face his hair stood straight up in a shock of black fuzz; he was dressed in a blue tweed jacket and blue woolen skirt with red belt, black oxfords and black, knee-length stockings. He was not prepared for the reporters and photographers who found him aboard the liner Mauretania, on a trip that is taking him around the world...
Island Pastor. But Pastor Salau is also a Christian minister on a mission, armed with a quiet dignity that enabled him to cope equally well with wise-guy radio hucksters and gushing females. His mission: a three-month Seventh Day Adventist-sponsored tour of the U.S. to encourage his fellow Adventists in their aggressive foreign missions work. The 86-year-oLd sect could scarcely have picked a better...