Word: grahams
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Which meant that the 20th century blew it apart. Some indication of the shift can be had by studying the learning curve of Billy Graham. In his 1950 Boston revival, a young Graham was ebulliently specific about the world to come. Heaven, he said, was a place "as real as Los Angeles, London, Algiers or Boston." It was "1,600 miles long, 1,600 miles wide and 1,600 miles high." Once there, "we are going to sit around the fireplace and have parties, and the angels will wait on us, and we'll drive down the golden streets...
...crucial that when he arrived in June 1992, Bush even carried his bags. But like Henry Ford, Clinton took an existing idea and perfected its mass production. In the Clinton White House, 938 guests trooped through. They included the famous, like Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg and Billy Graham, and the relatively obscure, including numerous personal friends of the Clintons and Chelsea. But at least a third of them were moved to make donations to the party before or after their stayovers, totaling $10 million in all, according to the New York Times...
...women look up to Ivy Wang, the sophomore star from Pennsylvania who dazzles even her own teammates. Following her in the rotation are Majmudar, She and junior Gabriela Hricko--who recently won the Princeton Invitational. The remaining spots are manipulated by head coach Gordon Graham...
DIED. ROBERT KLARK GRAHAM, 90, optical physicist who developed shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses; in Seattle. Later in life Graham established a controversial sperm bank for Nobel Prize winners. He was criticized as a eugenicist, but his bank has been credited with fathering more than 200 children...
Eventually, Graham hopes to meet the charter's original goal of teaching seventh and eight grades as well...