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...Baptist missionary, so the Southern Baptists seceded and organized their own convention. The Civil War brought ruin to many of them. Northern preachers demanded loyalty oaths from their defeated brethren, and many Southerners headed West, carrying Scriptures in their saddlebags and baptizing new converts in the creeks and cow ponds of the prairies. Out of the hellfire tradition of revival-tent meetings grew an uglier tradition of prejudice and violence. The burning crosses of the Ku Klux Klan were a grotesque perversion of Christian principles, but an image was formed. "It became dangerous in the South to be intelligent...
...example this time was Jeremy Thorpe, 47, for nine years leader of Britain's gadfly Liberal Party and at one time one of the most enterprising figures on the British political scene, a bowler-hatted Etonian who would slog through department stores and cow pastures to greet voters and was a Fleet Street favorite. Yet for more than four months, Thorpe had been politically besieged because of allegations that he had been involved in a homosexual relationship in the early 1960s-a charge that, it gradually became clear, either Thorpe or some of his well-meaning but inept friends...
...quats," says Miami Nurseryman Mark Ancet. "It's just gung-ho," notes Al Muller, at a Wilmette, Ill., nursery. "We're running out of Bibb lettuce, celery, carrots, and we can't get new supplies." In New England, the Finast supermarkets find 40-lb. bags of cow manure (at $1.99 a bag) selling at record rates...
Sweet Appeal. Among leaders of the herd are Malcolm Hereford's Cows, produced by Heublein, Inc., which began test-marketing the product last spring. More than 500,000 cases have been sold so far, and liquor stores report that the Cows are a live stock indeed. Heublein's ads show Cow bottles grazing in a green pasture and describe how Malcolm Hereford, a fictitious bull breeder, invented the drink. Concludes Hereford: "A Cow-on-the-rocks is not a bum steer...
...Cow sales on Continental Airlines took off as soon as the Cows were added to its beverage list, and the airline is now selling special $1 "cow chips"-ersatz gold tokens, embellished with a cow, good for three drinks. Continental's thirstiest "Cowboys" seem to be women -and college students of both sexes. Explains Stewardess Becky Schnehl: "Maybe it's a carryover from their milkshake days. The sweetness appeals, and so does the fact that they usually can't taste the alcohol in it." Elaine Drakos, a teacher from Huntington, Long Island, has found another virtue...