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...that chamber in those years. Or you could call them whales, grand political men (three women, no blacks) with all the flaws of the day and hardy battlers for their partisan causes. But they were by almost anybody's standards an extraordinary collection of public figures: Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, Vermont's George Aiken, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Connecticut's Prescott Bush, Montana's Mike Mansfield, Ohio's Bob Taft, Arkansas' Bill Fulbright, Virginia's Harry Byrd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency When Giants Ruled | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...picket in front of their houses, confront them in the supermarket, identify them as "murderers" to their neighbors and children. A lawyer instructed the Melbourne volunteers on how far they could go with such harassing activities while remaining within their First Amendment rights. The attorney took them to the Brevard County courthouse and showed them how to file lawsuits against local officials, police, abortion doctors and activists in order to tie them up with paperwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Camp For Crusaders | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...Christ, an evangelical group that plans to bring the Gospel to 6 billion people worldwide by the year 2000, is moving its headquarters from San Bernardino, Calif., to the area. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which owns a ranch in rural Orange, Osceola and Brevard counties 10 times the size of Disney's property, wants to build a community for 10,000 families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orlando, Florida: Fantasy's Reality | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

TRICK-OR-TREAT POLL. Card shops around Brevard County, Florida, a G.O.P. stronghold and home to the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, are having difficulty maintaining their stocks of a Halloween card with a political tinge. BUSH WINS declares a newspaper headline on the front, while the inside * reads, "This is the scariest card I could find. Happy Halloween." A version with the headline DUKAKIS WINS is hardly selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Oct. 31, 1988 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...Alabama case, which also involved a group of Fundamentalist parents as plaintiffs, hinged upon a different provision of the First Amendment, the establishment clause, which undergirds church and state separation. In March, Federal Judge W. Brevard Hand ruled that 44 history, social studies and home economics books used throughout the state violated the establishment clause by promoting what he designated a religion, secular humanism. It teaches, he said, "that salvation is through one's self rather than through a deity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Going Back to the Books | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

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