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...echo of charge and countercharge. Aroused pro-and anti-Paiewonsky factions fired hundreds of messages to Washington, about 9 to 1 in Paiewonsky's favor. Said Novelist Herman (The Caine Mutiny) Wouk, who lives on St. Thomas: "Paiewonsky is the best man." In Charlotte Amalie, the Seventh-day Adventist Church said prayers for Paiewonsky...
Many of the nation's 580 Catholic periodicals warmed to the campaign, citing an estimate that "doubly taxed" Catholics, by running parochial schools, now save non-Catholic taxpayers nearly $3 billion a year. Protestants backed the Catholic President. Seventh-day Adventists were well pleased that the Kennedy bill excludes church schools, even though they have the highest ratio of students to church members (one for every seven members v. the Catholics' eight). "Kennedy is keeping his campaign pledge magnificently," said one Adventist official...
Supervisor Howell, 65, a onetime Seventh-day Adventist missionary in South America, assured everyone that his own view was not necessarily the state's. No state teacher was under fire for teaching evolution, though "his own mind should tell him that he is doing wrong in so teaching." But the damage had been done. From the size of the uproar, it appeared that the majority of the people of Washington subscribed to Darwin's theory. Most embarrassed of all: Lloyd J. Andrews, state superintendent of public instruction, who had appointed Howell and who is seeking the Republican nomination...
...Prophecy. When the unknown Seventh-day Adventist climbed down the mountain, he left some Bibles in Chimpay, and the Indians began to study the Torah and live by it. Eleven years later, a Chilean Jew named Santiago Martinez visited Chimpay, gave the Indians real instruction in Judaism, and told them that the children of Israel had completed their millennium of suffering for having forsaken Jehovah and were soon to return to Zion to await the coming of the Messiah. The Araucanians observed Jewish dietary laws, feast and fast days, separated men and women for worship, even broke down their tribe...