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...Children were not so efficient in their indoctrination of converts, who still go through months of spiritual brainwashing. Those who escape often have to leave a lot behind. When David Hoyt, an early leader of the Jesus movement, joined the C.O.G. in Atlanta, he took along many of his flock-and found himself and his friends shipped out within days. "They took over our houses, our vehicles, and about $17,000," recalls Hoyt, who rose to leadership in the C.O.G. before leaving them in disgust. But Hoyt, now in Britain and one of the Children's most outspoken foes...
PERHAPS THE MOST ODIOUS effect of pack journalism, though, is the "winner's bus" attitude. Like bees to honey, journalists flock to a winner; it is both glamorous and exciting to herald the victor's progress. Crouse suggests that this feeling unconsciously prompts reporters to fashion their subject into a winner, to write stories that too exuberantly predict his success. Sometimes they are left in the lurch, like the disillusioned reporters who roseately optimized Muskie's rortune but suddenly discovered that the bus had run aground without warning...
...unpretentious models of their kind. He writes orderly, ungimmicked plots, creates cleanly drawn characters and scrupulously avoids explicit sex and sadism. He places his mysteries in the context of the busy, stable life of a Conservative Jew. The rabbi's liturgical calendar, the duties and derelictions of his flock, their relations with the town's Roman Catholics-represented by Chief Lanigan and Father Ahern-are all taken with wry, judicious seriousness. There are few such solid series around. Chesterton and Father Brown would bless Kemelman and his rabbi...
Hopkins, a perennial top-ten finisher in the NCAA college division, is led by a flock of outstanding aquatic Blue Jays. All-American Bill Milne, described by Hopkins coach Frank Comford as "definitely our best swimmer," has taken six individual college-division championships in the last three years...
Boasting 17 returning lettermen and a flock of fine freshmen, Harvard stands an excellent chance of improving on last year's 8-1 dual meet record and third-place Eastern league finish. Today's performance against Dartmouth should provide a good indication of how far the team...