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...ailing, the delegates in Montreal nearly gave a first-ballot victory to Hartford, Conn.'s, popular Bishop Dmitri, a Texas-born, former Baptist who converted to Orthodoxy as a teenager. But the bishops instead chose Theodosius. He comes from an Orthodox family in the church's Pennsylvania heartland and thus would be easier for older members to accept than a convert like Dmitri...
Adler is Jewish, and a Jew in this rural, tribal and fiercely Christian heartland is a wanderer indeed. There were Jews in Savannah well before the turn of the 19th century - George Washington's letter of good wishes to the city's Jewish congregation dated 1789 is the book's epi- graph - but most of those Adler meets feel that they remain in Georgia on the most precarious kind of sufferance. Their prudent rabbi has eliminated Hebrew from most of the ritual, and their new temple, Adler notes wryly, lacks only a cross to make it indistinguishable...
...have long been roaming the world searching for unusual locations that will jolt the jaded eyes of moviegoers. Having dispatched camera crews from Abidjan to Zempoaltepec, movie moguls are now discovering an inviting area closer to home: the U.S. Midwest. In the view of film executives, America's heartland is "virgin territory" on the screen, unknown even to many Americans-not to mention foreign movie buffs. It also offers the stark authenticity that many current movies demand: steel mills, gritty factory towns, ghettos black and ethnic, as well as the lush estates of the better-heeled...
...founded in 1956 by Billy Graham and friends in order to provide much-needed intellectual guidance for Evangelical Protestants. The magazine's urbane image suffered this year when it moved from downtown Washington, D.C., to Carol Stream, Ill., in part to be closer to the conservative Protestant heartland. Nonetheless, it has just chosen a new editor, Kenneth S. Kantzer, who comes equipped with a Harvard Ph.D. Says he: "Great ideas don't have to be incomprehensible...
...votes was Sanjay, in his first try for elective office. Of 542 seats in the new Lok Sabha (Lower House), Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party won only 153 (v. 355 in the last Parliament), while Desai's Janata coalition won 270, completely routing Congress in its traditional heartland, the Hindi-speaking north. In a dramatic capitulation to the voters' verdict, Indira Gandhi drove to the home of Acting President B.D. Jatti at 4 a.m. one day last week after learning of her defeat, and asked him to lift the state of emergency that she had imposed...