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...UCLA, posters announced a rally for "the white students who have stood by while minority students have their hands held . . . Whites are prepared to fight to preserve their rights! God bless America!" At about the same time, there was, in fact, a fight -- when a fraternity tried to bar a black from an open party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Message from Academe | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Billed as a seminar on the Constitution, "The Making of America" is more a churchy patriotic meeting than a scholarly dissertation. Sessions open with a presentation of military colors, followed by soloists belting out The Battle Hymn of the Republic and audiences singing God Bless America. When W. Cleon Skousen, 74, steps onto the podium, he preaches that the authors of the Constitution intended the U.S. to be governed as a Christian republic "under the law of God." As he explained to a rapt gathering of 800 in Anchorage two weeks ago, "The Founding Fathers wanted to separate church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In God We Trust | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train for her to play with. Producer Mervyn LeRoy took the script of Quo Vadis? to the Vatican and had no trouble getting Pope Pius XII to bless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tales Of | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...Bernstein of this. They ought to get the Pulitzer Prize." At a Miami rally of some 3,000 Cuban Americans that night, he heated up his rhetoric. "If Colonel North ripped off the Ayatullah and took $30 million and gave it to the contras," he declared, "then God bless Colonel North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making It Us Vs. Them | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...speech, Buchanan said, "If Colonel North broke any rules, he will stand up and take it like the fighting Marine he is. But I say, if Colonel North ripped off the Ayatollah [Ruhollah Khomeini] and took $30 million and gave it to the Contras, then God bless Colonel North...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: White House Answers Buchanan Remarks | 12/10/1986 | See Source »

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