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...banner year for housing...
...since Watergate and the Vietnam War has the nation undergone such comprehensive soul-searching. Gone are the relatively halcyon days of the 1950's when America was apple pie, the Star Spangled banner and wholesome values. The unsettling period of the late 1960's and early 1970's changed all that, as the Sexual Revolution and the hippie generation forced a rejection of traditional values...
What are PTL's prospects? Amazingly enough, attendance at Heritage USA is running 20% ahead of last year's levels. At week's end a banner at the entrance to the amusement park that had read MAY EMERGENCY had been altered to read MAY MIRACLE! The proclamation was the result of a surge of donations that enabled Falwell to raise the $7 million he said was needed by May 31. Now, however, another $20 million to $25 million within 90 days is being solicited by Falwell, who claims PTL requires that amount to consolidate its loans...
...have a responsibility to investigate who politicians are, and editors have a responsibility to present that news in a way comensurate with its importance. What editors choose to run and how prominently they run it affects the news, and this power requires good judgment. As a rule, front page banner headlines should be reserved for hard news, not stories with hazy implications about candidates' personalities...
...marched. We walked behind a banner that proclaimed "Take Back the Night" and posters of women with distorted faces, women who were angry. We strode purposefully across the Law School campus, through Cambridge Commons, down the streets of the town, past river houses and final clubs...