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...most esteemed evangelist in America is a vicious, foulmouthed, whisky-swilling slob who carries on a flagrant liaison with a pea-brained wench. He treats his preacher son like dirt and shells out cash here and there to hush up his scandals. That's the protagonist of Miracle, a squalid novel by Dotson Rader (Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Three Irreverent Authors | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...with his Cabinet last month that he expected his appointees to begin acting more like members of the Carter team. No longer were they to attempt bureaucratic end runs around senior White House aides. When telephoned by such senior aides as Hamilton Jordan, Press Secretary Jody Powell or Congressional Liaison Chief Frank Moore, Cabinet members were to respond as if the President himself were calling. Full debate was fine before a policy was set, Carter said, but once a decision was made, public dissent or anonymous leaking would be viewed as disloyalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Curbing Cabinet Government | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...office clerk; Edmond Glud, 64, switched to the mail department; Sigvald Bangsager, 62, cuts a fine figure as a security guard. Says he: "You have to know when your time is up, when you're burned out." Adds Poul Jensen, a former director who now works in marketing liaison: "Why shouldn't a manager work as a mailman? Any kind of work deserves respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Better Down Than Out | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...meantime, Salvan, a Palestinian liaison officer and two French soldiers jumped aboard two Jeeps and raced toward the scene of the earlier ambush. Less than a mile away, they too were attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Perils of Peace Keeping | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

MARRIED. Leonard Woodcock, 67, chief of the U.S. liaison mission to the People's Republic of China and former president of the United Automobile Workers; and Sharon Tuohy, 35, a State Department nurse on Woodcock's staff; in Peking; he for the second time, she for the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1978 | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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