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Until last fall, lean, gray-templed Garner Ted Armstrong was the quintessential religious soft-sell artist. His program called The World Tomorrow was carried on some 400 radio and 99 TV stations. His slick, free monthly called The Plain Truth went to 2,100,000 subscribers. To the millions of Americans who followed him, Garner Ted dispensed glib solutions to such problems as drugs, crime, broken marriages and delinquent children-all implicitly in the name of the Worldwide Church of God. This is a stern, bizarre sect founded in 1934 as the Radio Church of God by Garner...
Then, last October, Garner Ted was suddenly relieved of duties as executive vice president of the church and vice chancellor of Ambassador College. Later his name was expunged from the masthead of The Plain Truth. His radio programs were replaced by ten-year-old tapes made by his father...
Bonds of Satan. At first, Herbert told W.C.G. members that Garner Ted was simply taking a long overdue leave of absence. Then, in February, the inner church membership-about 75,000 people-heard a letter from Pasadena so secret that their ministers were ordered to burn it after reading. Its message: Garner Ted was "in the bonds of Satan." At the end of April, the senior Armstrong made a more public statement to the broader church membership-the "coworker" category, which includes such sympathizers as Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer-explaining that Garner Ted had confessed to some kind of transgression...
...FLORENCE GARNER...
...tune, wood and leather steering wheels, driving gloves, headers, roll bars. Jack Cassidy recently picked up an air horn for his Rolls, Bill Holden a bullhorn for his Continental, Paul Newman some gloves to help him handle his VW, Robert Wagner a wood shift knob for his Mercedes, James Garner some goggles for driving around in his dune buggy...