Word: good
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...Good Membry. The man who has elevated so many people to the clergy cannot read or write, although he has a mail-order Ph.D. from the Hollywood University of Los Angeles and an honorary doctorate in metallurgy from a school in Nebraska. Hensley, 57, grew up in the mountains of North Carolina and attended a one-room schoolhouse for a few years where he "done everything but learn to read and write." He hit the road at 13, first encountered religion during the Depression on his way to a youth camp. When he tried to emulate a street-corner preacher...
...Bakersfield, San Jose and Sunnyvale. He also became a relatively successful contractor, prosperous enough to hire people to read to him from the Bible. "My wife and other people would read the verses to me, and I would mem-brize them," he says. "I have a good membry, and sometimes I would stay up all night long just listnin' to the Scriptures. I membrized the Bible from Genesis all the way through, and then I realized I was only helping Peter, Paul and John preach their story. I had my ideas to preach...
...Europe last week for the new Administration's first formal contacts with European economic officials. At the week-long meetings in Paris of the 22-nation Organization for European Cooperation and Development, the delegation earned high marks and persuaded even the skeptics that the U.S. economy is in good hands. The Europeans wanted some indication of U.S. determination to handle its No. 1 economic problem: inflation. The Americans did not disappoint them. "If we have one objective, it is to try to cool the overheated economic situation," said Paul McCracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic...
...increases and a freeze on further boosts until March 1. By then, he warns, the city's landlords had better produce a formula for self-regulation against gouging or they will face legislated controls. The owners are expected to come through with some sort of plan-and for good reason. With an election due in the autumn, Democrats on the city council are threatening the landlords with a number of politically popular bills, including one that would impose rent controls on all buildings, and another that would force rents back to the 1967 level...
...basic danger of doing a book as an act or a routine is that it is only as good as its last bit. Despite Roth's extravagant comic talents and ingenuity, Portnoy's Complaint flags in stretches. The ending is a boisterious but somewhat flatfooted way of getting Portnoy off the stage. On balance, however, Portnoy's Complaint is skillfully paced, eliciting more laughs per page than any novel in recent memory-Catch-22 and The Sot Weed Factor notwithstanding...