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...suntan instead of slapdash makeup jobs; no lectern to hide behind. Ailes kept the set simple, the colors manly. Once Chicago set designers tried to use oh-so-chic turquoise curtains as a back drop. "Those stupid bastards," railed Ailes. "Nixon wouldn't have looked right unless he was carrying a pocketbook...
Wearing a yellow and green dashiki, the Rev. Junius Carter, rector of Pittsburgh's Holy Cross Church, trembled with emotion as he looked out from the speaker's lectern at the delegates assembled in Notre Dame University's domed athletic center. "Too long, bishops, you have sat on the sidelines and have not acted as our pastors!" he shouted. "I urge you to intervene at this convention and exercise the authority that has been given you by our Lord...
...Billy Graham tells his audiences that he is "on the sunset side now." His right index finger still slices the air magisterially, and his resonant voice has lost little of its oratorical control. The Bible still hangs open in his big left hand as he moves back from the lectern, then up to it again. The message is as sternly fundamental as ever: "God says I command you to repent." Still, something was missing last week as Graham crusaded in Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden. Time and repetition have mellowed the fervor and intensity with which America...
...center on his lower lip. De Gaulle liked best the France of the history books. Pompidou lives each day as it comes, reveling in the hurly-burly of politics and high finance, equally at ease in galleries of modern art, in a Riviera nightclub or behind a university lectern...
...into centers of Greek patriotism and serve as town halls where local problems can be threshed out and the people protected from the world below before they reach the haven of heaven above. The Premier has already remembered his church at Elaiohorion by giving it new pews and a lectern, an icon stand and a bishop's chair. Pattakos' sister Irene, who still lives in Aghia Paraskevi, recalls their religious upbringing. "Mother taught us to make the sign of the cross before sleeping. My brother not only made the sign before his face but also on his pillow...