Word: grahams
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Before flying off to visit troops in Viet Nam, Evangelist Billy Graham paid a call at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for a few words with former President Dwight Eisenhower. As Graham recalls it, Ike had a message for the G.I.s, delivered with tears streaming down his cheeks: "You're going to Viet Nam. Tell those doughboys that here at Walter Reed is an old soldier pulling for them and praying for them." Said Graham: "I was touched. I had never seen him cry before...
Four of Navy's best swimmers are Jim Johnson, Phil Graham, John Powrie, and Mark Porier. Brooks spoke especially highly of Johnson. "I regard Johnson as their best swimmer, and he's one of the best potential swimmers in the country," he said. Johnson, a junior, coasted to victory in the 200-yard free against Columbia Saturday...
...Graham was the meet's only double winner, as he competed successfully in the freestyle at both 500 and 1000 yards. Powrie was second to Graham in the 1000 and was also runner-up in the 200-yard breaststroke behind Navy's Glen Stockdale. In the 200-yard individual medley, Poirier broke the Columbia pool record with a time...
...events of particular interest today should be the 500-yard free and the 1000-yard free, Graham's two events in the Columbia contest. In the 500, he is likely to go against Harvard's star Steve Krause, who has won the event in both his previous meets. In the 100 his opponent will probably be Dave Powlison, another outstanding sophomore. Brooks said he is not yet sure exactly how he will juggle his several capable freestylers...
Over the years, Nixon has formed close friendships with two of the nation's best-known preachers: Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale. Nixon occasionally attends Baptist church services with Graham, and one of the President-elect's few public statements on religion was written for Graham's monthly magazine Decision in 1965. "Some of our voices in the pulpit today," Nixon wrote, "speak too much about religion in the abstract, rather than in personal, simple terms. More preaching from the Bible rather than just about the Bible is what America needs." Nixon also described religion...