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...Arkansas wanted to take advantage of the August recess to inspect Brazil's production of ethanol. It is an unwritten House rule that Congressmen can request the services of a Pentagon plane only if three or four of them travel together. So Alexander invited four of his colleagues to join him on his six-day sojourn. He sent their names to Speaker Tip O'Neill, who asked the Pentagon to secure a jet for the group. But when the Air Force C-9 took off for Sao Paulo, Alexander, 51, the House chief deputy majority whip, was the only Congressman...
...reasons are simpler for people like Chandler Robinson of Fort Worth, a retired engineer, who with Wife Julie forsook his lifelong Episcopal affiliation to join a conservative Baptist church. Says he: "The more we found ourselves maturing in Christianity the more disappointed we became with the spiritual food we were receiving. We were looking for someone to teach us out of the Bible." The Rev. W.A. Criswell of Dallas, 76, the leonine patriarch of the Southern Baptists' insurgent Fundamentalist wing and pastor of their largest congregation, charges that liberal theology "empties the churches. Wherever liberalism places its leprous hand, there...
...associate dean, the 1971 Cornell graduate will join a coterie of about 15 senior staff members at the K-School who report to Dean Graham T. Allison '62. While women constitute about 70 percent of the senior staff, Reveal is the first woman to assume the associate dean for administration post...
Charles O. Sethness, associate dean for external relations, next week will leave his B-School position as head of alumni relations, fundraising and publications. If the Senate confirms his nomination, Sethness will join a group of 12 assistant secretaries in the Treasury Department's fourth highest post...
...front of an audience, to publicize a future gig, or just for fun. A recent graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ed Bernstein likes to beat his conga drum along Brattle St. After finishing work at Digital Equipment Corporation. Bernstein starts searching around Paperback Booksmith for other musicians to join...