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Fine Spirits. At 6 a.m. on Saturday, Betty Ford awoke to find three bouquets of flowers at her bedside-all from her husband. She walked across the hall to a sitting room to join Nancy Howe and the Rev. Billy Zeoli, an evangelist from Grand Rapids and a longtime friend of the family who had flown down in the middle of the night to do what he could. At 6:30 a.m., Susan and Michael arrived to cheer their mother up, but she was already in fine spirits. Mrs. Ford laughed about her toeless white operating-room socks. Said...
...reveals the uniqueness of a living thing in the same way she concentrates on a human face and reveals its essentials. For her, Ansel Adams glares down from the top of a mountain, tripod slung over his shoulder, finger jabbing at the air in the style of a barnstorming evangelist. Judy Dater--another photographer--glances down with daydreaming eyes and a half smile as she stretches out her long black hair with her fingers. Her portraits of Martha Graham are studies in extension and complete muscular control, but Imogen captures the dancer most effectively in a close...
...Ford misjudged both Americans in general and American churchmen in particular. Evangelist Billy Graham applauded the Sabbath pardon, but he was a decided exception. Conservative or liberal, Christian or Jew, most other religious thinkers deplored Ford's action on grounds of theology as well as simple justice...
Among the Protestants, Billy Graham made the top eleven on the strength of the fact that he "has personally spoken to more people, in more places, than any other evangelist in the world's history." Others included United Church of Christ Minister James Gustaf son, professor of Christian Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, whose quiet work, which insists on the importance of ethical rules, "will influence people in the pews"; Rhodesia's black Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, a steady voice for racial equality "whom Rhodesia's black people have learned to trust"; and David...
Gear with God. Keys' outfit, with its headquarters in Waterdown, Ont., now has twelve ordained chaplains who head the blue-uniformed chapel crews in the three rigs. It also includes 40 full-time evangelists and 300 part-time workers. Keys publishes a tabloid newspaper, The Highway Evangelist (circ. 105,000), ten times a year. Columns include "New Wheels" (births), "Gear Box Groanings" (illnesses), and "Silent Wheels" (deaths). There are also pamphlets laced with trucking metaphors like "highballing to heaven." The Bible is "the road map of life," and drivers are urged to "gear with God-you'll pull...