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...long military career, shifting about from post to post, Dwight Eisenhower worshiped as a Protestant who belonged to no particular church. His devout, Bible-quoting parents reared him as one of the Brethren in Christ; they believed in baptism only when individuals were old enough to decide for themselves, and the Eisenhower brothers do not remember being baptized as children. In 1948, while president of Columbia University, Eisenhower spoke of himself as "one of the most deeply religious men I know." Though not attached to any "sect or organization," he often expresses the conviction that democracy cannot exist without religion...
Humphrey is eloquent on the perils of inflation, but he senses another peril in slamming the U.S. economy against the dashboard if he puts on the brakes too fast. He has a businessman's horror of running a government by deficit, and is a devout believer in the balanced budget (even to the point of personal conviction that defense spending should be cut if necessary, to balance the budget). But Humphrey knows that Harry Truman's $78.6 billion budget, with its $9.9 billion deficit, is another factor which makes quick economic change impossible...
Duncan, a devout Anglican, thinks the issue is one where conscience combines with patriotism. Out on bail, he explained his mission to newsmen: "If the [racial clash] becomes a straight fight of black against white, South Africa is doomed...
...subject may be disturbed because of unimaginable horrors perpetrated on his theta being in outer space billions of years ago. ("Things are as rough in outer space as they are here," says a devout Hubbardian. "Anything can happen.") If a subject has a pain in his jaw, it may be that in an earlier spiral he was a clam. If this pain is associated with fear of falling, he must have been a clam that was picked up by a bird and dropped on the rocks...
...devout apostle of protection, Edwin Mosler has a safe in every room, and another in almost every closet of his summer home at Deal, NJ. and his Manhattan apartment. "Better safe than sorry," he tells visitors with a grin. However, he candidly admits "no safe is completely safe. Anything one man makes, another can break...