Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Church. By far the most sustained ground fighting erupted in midweek within a few thousand feet of Bien Hoa, a huge and vital airbase northeast of Saigon. The Communists took up positions in a string of hamlets near the busy base and, in the bloody fighting that ensued, a battered little church changed hands several times. The battle did not turn until fighter-bombers and helicopter gunships, taking off little more than a mile away, saturated the Communist positions with rockets and napalm. A few Viet Cong staggered out of the inferno, bleeding and holding their weapons over their...
...Louisville Courier-Journal and Times went ahead and used the words, but later regretted it. "We regarded it as an official report, and it is our policy not to tinker with the text of an official report," says Executive Editor Norman Isaacs. As complaints poured in from church groups and offended readers, Isaacs candidly apologized. "It was an error in news judgment," he adds. "It isn't likely to happen again...
Miracle Valley. Born in Arkansas, Allen was converted from Methodism to Pentecostalism in his early 20s, when he heard a woman evangelist preach in a country church, eventually became a minister with the Assemblies of God. By 1953, he was already concentrating on faith healing-and prospering. Three years later, the Assemblies of God dismissed him for failing to appear at a church trial resulting from a Tennessee drunken-driving arrest, but Allen hardly seemed to care. The same year, he organized his own Miracle Revival Fellowship, which claims to be nondenominational, but has become in effect an independent sect...
...every year. TV and radio technicians stand by to prepare Allen's daily radio broadcasts (58 stations) and weekly television programs (43 stations). There is a record company (47 albums of sermons and gospel music), an airstrip (Cessna 150 at the ready), and a barnlike, 3,000-capacity church to hold the faithful who come by train, plane, bus and auto to attend each of Allen's twice-yearly, 17-day camp meetings. For those who want to stay, there is even a subdivision called Miracle Valley Estates, where the modest homes are dominated by Allen...
...accustomed to the slick, fast-breaking style of play in the U.S., return home out of frustration; while improving, European basketball at best is on a level with junior-college ball in the U.S. Playing conditions, like the cramped court on the third floor of the Abbey of Mercy church in Venice, are often less than ideal. Refereeing, which one U.S. player says favors the home team by a good 25 points, is woefully bad. And the European players, to whom teamwork is a job performed by oxen, would just as soon uncork an impossibly long set shot as pass...