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...Little to Drink. The group's repertory is varied and immense-300 songs ranging from Israeli folk music to rock 'n' roll. By the time Lyman has finished arranging them, however-building in parts for castanets, chimes, tambourines, cow bells and even the jawbone of an ass-they all take on the same exotic, Oriental flavor. To give listeners the impression that they are in the rain forests of Brazil, Lyman and his men cut loose at regular intervals with what they hope are authentic bird cries. At its best, the group has a delicate, haunting sound...
...delegates from 102 countries gathered for a World Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists in San Francisco last week, there was a note of gentle irony in their choice of one of their meeting places−the Cow Palace. Vegetarians by conviction, almost all Adventists abstain from meat. They tend to abstain from alcohol, nicotine, coffee, tea, cosmetics, jewelry, dancing, card playing, movies, the theater, and "sensational" TV shows...
Steak & Hymns. Last week the 22nd annual Montosa Camp Meeting was in full swing in Socorro County, N. Mex., the fourth in a series of revival sessions held each summer along a circuit that includes the cow counties of west Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. There were two ministers to conduct services four or five times each day in the big, steel-sided tabernacle, and Bible lessons for the children. Days began with Scripture readings and ended with the singing of hymns. Nights, the men and women swapped stories around campfires before bedding down in trailers or in tents...
Among the 700 people at the New Mexico meeting were some who came all the way from ranches in Texas and Arizona-just as their forebears did in decades past. The cow country's first campfire meeting was organized back in 1890 by the Rev. W. B. Bloys, Stated Clerk of the El Paso Presbytery, who rode out to a campsite in the Davis Mountains to preach for three days to a handful of cowpokes and ranch families. Onetime Texas Cattle Dealer Joe Evans, now 80, remembers hearing Bloys preach. Evans, a Baptist layman, worked with the forerunner...
Since taking command of the Pentagon last year. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has vigorously goaded the sacred cows of the armed forces, to bellows of dismay from affronted admirals, generals and Congressmen. Last week it was the state Governors' turn to yowl as McNamara took steps to put a halter on the most sacred cow of all: the Army National Guard. At their conference in Hershey, Pa., the Governors met with McNamara to protest his plan to reform and cut back the Guard, a traditional source of political power, prestige and pay in their home states...