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...Secretary James Watt. Falwell also called an emergency meeting of the board for this week. His administrative assistant, Mark DeMoss, indicated that Falwell is not empire building and that his organization in Lynchburg, Va., and PTL will have "separate boards, separate management, separate everything." In the shake-up, Richard Dortch, formerly Bakker's top executive, becomes PTL president...
...Eastertide the song-and-dance acts are replaced by a Passion play. In a salon of the 500- room hotel, blue-haired grannies sip tea (no alcohol is served) as a harpist plays nearby. "Jim Bakker grew up and asked, 'Why can't everything be nice?' " reports Aide Richard Dortch. The genteel slickness of Heritage USA is Bakker's answer to that question: the triumph of born-again nice...
...under pressure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, created a program designed to give hiring preference to women and minorities, and Cramer did not get the job. He sued-not to get a job, but to test the principle of exclusion by sex. Federal District Judge D. Dortch Warriner agreed with Cramer. "You've been flattened by the civil rights steamroller," he said. After an unusual appeal hearing involving all the judges on the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the court said that it would delay its ruling pending the Bakke decision...
Longstreet married Helen Dortch in 1897, when he was 76 and she was 34. They met at Brenau College in Gainesville, Ga., where she was a classmate of his daughter's. The General died in 1904, and his widow survived him by 58 years...
Died. Helen Dortch Longstreet. 99, spry widow of Confederate General James Longstreet, a Georgia belle who at 80 became a World War II "Riveting Rosie"; of a heart attack; in Georgia...