Word: houston
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Carol Corbett Burris Houston...
...Bible college president and leading hardliner, offer "a Dalmatian theology"-one holding that "the Bible is inspired only in spots." Once professors accept "human embellishments" in the Bible, Patterson contended, there is no logical place to stop, and Christians find themselves "cast on a hopeless sea of subjectivism." But Houston Pastor Kenneth Chafin, a moderate, called the inerrancy crusade nothing more "than a naked, ruthless reach for personal power...
When students at the Irvington Pentecostal Academy in Houston have a question about their lessons, they signal for the supervisor's attention by raising either an eight-inch American flag or a small blue and white Christian flag at their desks. Each day they recite pledges of allegiance to both flags, and to the Bible. They all wear an eye-catching school uniform of red, white and blue; for men (including the school's principal), blue pants, red shirts and flag-studded blue neckties; for women, plaid jumpers or blue skirts and vests with white blouses. Irvington...
...account. In most cases people can write checks for the monthly mortgage payment or for college tuition against an account, though some funds require that checks be written for a minimum of $500. The great attraction, of course, is the high interest, which last week averaged about 16%. Says Houston Attorney Clarence West: "My money-market fund pays three times as much as a savings account would, and I can get my money out with no penalty." Adds Anne Chambers, a New York television producer: "When interest rates hit 13%, I decided to join the money funds...
...meantime, gay Harvard graduates have established alumni associations in Boston, New York and San Francisco, and are now forming chapters in Atlanta, Houston and Washington, D.C. The associations congregated in Boston's Park Plaza Hotel last week to plan the creation of a tax-exempt foundation that would supply tens of thousands of dollars to gay student organizations for educational activities like GLAD Days. They are also talking of setting up scholarships for gay students who have been disowned by their parents, and of funding an endowed chair in gay studies at Harvard. One gay alumnus. Toby Marotta, will soon...