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...book in the nonfiction category, where it ranks tenth this week. Truth to tell (so to speak), The Final Conclave is a farrago of fact, speculation, misinformation and fiction. In somewhat the same vein, Rader uses silly, intrusive episodes that feature F.D.R. speaking at a revival, and Aimee Semple McPherson blathering in her boudoir, and dots his hero's career with heavyhanded parallels to the life of Billy Graham...
...almost six days. In the meantime they suffered the predictable effects of excessive radiation exposure: vomiting, diarrhea, loss of hair. Despite this, Lieut. Colonel William J. McGee of the Defense Nuclear Agency has declared: "To the best of our knowledge, the animals experience no pain from radiation experiments." Charles McPherson, head of the rhesus monkey certification program, insists: "What the armed forces were doing met the definition of medical research. There certainly wasn't any weapon used; the monkeys were simply exposed to radiation...
Scholars like Rutgers' Emmet John Hughes, who wrote for Ike, wonder if Carter would not be better off with more limited and formal rhetoric. Harry McPherson, one of L.B.J.'s speechmen, has long contended that important presidential speeches are far more than just speeches. When done properly, they force an Administration through a laborious internal process, establishing directions, making decisions, hammering out exact language and calculating how to arrest attention and enlist the public. If the preliminaries are not done, or are done badly, the speech is rarely worth anything and is frequently alarming for the evidence...
...John C. McPherson...
...alike, and I think something is really there between us," purred Faye Dunaway, 35, considering her newest costar. Teamed with Hollywood Veteran Bette Davis, 68, Faye plays the title role in Sister Aimee, a Hallmark Hall of Fame production based on the life of California Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. Davis, who unsuccessfully sought a Sister Aimee movie role some three decades ago, belatedly settled for the part of McPherson's domineering mother on the mid-November TV show. No hard feelings, though. "Good God, Bette's been a star since...