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...HAROLD E. RANTON First Christian Church Eureka, Calif...
...Stupefying Bureaucracy." By hoarding his summer earnings as a lifeguard, Reagan managed to enter tiny (enrollment then: 250) Eureka College in Illinois-another small, activist-breeding environment. He made the football team (as a 175-lb. guard), led a student strike against the board of trustees when they tried to change the curriculum, graduated in 1932 with a degree in economics and sociology, and-"because I was a child of the Depression, a Democrat by upbringing and very emotionally involved"-he cast his first vote for Franklin Roosevelt. "Remember his platform?" asks Reagan. "It was all for states' rights...
...makes a handsome living from virulent pamphleteering and donations to his rabid, California-based Christian Nationalist Crusade. By way of apostrophizing his movement, Smith, 68, has just erected a $250,000 snow-white statue of Jesus Christ atop 1,500-ft. Magnetic Mountain near the Arkansas spa community of Eureka Springs...
Residents of Eureka Springs (pop.1,668), of two minds about the project, are hopeful that the statue will stimulate the local tourist trade, but are uneasy about Smith's presence in their community. Says Mrs. Smith: "It is a pleasure for me to point out that Eureka Springs is not a concentration center for eccentric kooks and nuts...
Then Callas' lawyers told her that under Greek law Greek citizens are validly married only if the ceremony is performed in the Greek Orthodox Church-which hers was not. Eureka! By giving up her U.S. citizenship, she would become a Greek and nothing but a Greek. Which meant that she would also become a single woman again...