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RUSSIA has some of the world's most beautiful and unusual churches, but they have mostly remained hidden from the eyes of foreigners. Many of them are outside the big cities to which travelers from abroad were restricted during the long period of Stalinism and the Iron Curtain. Now, however, with Moscow actively courting tourists and their hard currencies, the officially atheistic Communists are not only allowing access to the churches but have actually begun promoting them. The effort signals no change in Communism's general hostility to religion. Few of the churches are used for worship. They...
...That quality has helped him outgrow the limitations of his early successes. But it has also alienated some of his fans. There were early Dylan fanatics, for instance, who considered him guilty of betrayal when he first gave up the pure strains of folk music and adopted the electrified big beat of rock...
...variously, loose lending policies, lax management, land speculation, declining rural communities and, in one instance, alleged embezzlement. Perhaps it only reflects the new permissive attitude of the times, but Texas depositors have taken the closings with carefree jollity. Says Robbie Ferguson Jr., cashier and vice president of the failed Big Lake State Bank: "At first I was so embarrassed that I didn't come out of the house for two days. Then I got up the courage and came out, and everybody was laughing and joking about...
...less trust attended the closings in Lovelady, a sleepy town in the piney woods of East Texas, and Big Lake, though there the faith was on the other side. The State National Bank of Lovelady (pop. 644) used to advertise that "we love people, particularly people to whom money is a mystery." President Jim Grady Waller lived up to his ads. "If a man needed money, Waller would give it to him, even if he didn't have collateral," says Mayor W. T. (for William Thomas) Bruton. "A man's word was good enough." The debtors still...
Pray for Rain. The inspectors were no more understanding at the First State Bank of Dodson, which simply followed that Panhandle community in decline, or at Big Lake, an oil and ranch town on the flatlands of West Texas, where billboards exhort passers-by to "pray for rain." Horace B. Rees, 64, president of the Big Lake State Bank, "let his heart overload his sense." as one customer says, and tried to lure industry to the town by loaning seed capital to dubious ventures. Big Lake, however, was deprived of banking services for only a week. Three groups...