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...number of TV households tuning in to Swaggart's weekly show dropped from 2,161,000 to 1,759,000. Robert Schuller's Hour of Power lost 191,000 households, dipping to 1,507,000. Oral Roberts dropped 155,000 households, to 994,000. Jerry Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour and Robertson's daily 700 Club just about held even. The only gainer of the group, ironically, was The ptl Show, which climbed from 250,000 to 302,000 households. That increase may have been due to curiosity seekers or to Falwell supporters who tuned in after the Fundamentalist...
Increasingly, a growing number of Americans are focusing on the doings of the huge, semisecret gospel business empires like PTL that have sprung up in little more than a decade of fervent television preaching (see following story). Many are not happy with what they see. A Gallup poll survey this spring showed that since 1980 there has been a sharp decline in American public esteem for four of the country's most important TV preachers: Oklahoma- based Oral Roberts (whose approval rating dropped from 66% to 28%), Swaggart (76% to 44%), Virginia's Pat Robertson (65% to 50%) and California...
...become the watchwords of a bold attempt to modernize his country's creaky economic machinery and revitalize a society stultified by 70 years of totalitarian rule. In televised addresses, speeches to the party faithful and flesh- pressing public appearances -- often with his handsome wife Raisa -- he has spread his gospel of modernization. Translating his words into action, he is streamlining the government bureaucracy, reshuffling the military, moving reform-minded allies into the party leadership and allowing multicandidate elections at the local level. He has loosened restrictions on small-scale free enterprise and introduced the profit principle in state-owned industries...
...Records, he did a Billy Eckstine favorite as well as an Arthur ("Big Boy") Crudup blues, and he was always a big Dean Martin fan. He could puff and perspire all over a stage on the Vegas strip and show up back home to sing some heavenly gospel. Whatever he did and however he sang, it always seemed as if he were paying the vig on some spiritual debt that kept mounting until, with the aid of a few prescription drugs, it finally crushed...
...single since 1962. Gregg Geller, the archivist who supervised these four releases, has gathered the songs from those twelve days of studio work into a double album that is a bedrock classic. Elvis never again sang this consistently or this passionately. There are blues and country here, gospel and rock and pop, all sung as if Presley's life depended on each tune. It did, in a sense, and reclaiming himself, just this once, seemed enough. It gave him the strength to get on for another eight years. But listen to Long Black Limousine, and it's clear that Elvis...