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Swamp Water. Thursday night at the Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church...
...Help for Television Viewers" kits to 35,000 pastors and 15,000 lay leaders. The $1.50 kit includes a checklist so viewers can log incidents of violence, profanity and alcohol and sexual abuse. A more sophisticated project is "Television Awareness Training," a 16-hour course sponsored by the United Methodist Church, American Lutheran Church and Church of the Brethren. T.A.T. has trained more than 100 instructors so far, and they will begin offering classes for church and civic groups in 50 cities this month...
...paint the big picture. But there were deep bonds between the two opposites. At 46, Lance was closer in age to the President, who is 52, than most of the young Georgians who made up the White House's inner circle. Like the Baptist President, Lance-a Methodist-took his religion seriously. Both were workaholics who thought nothing of being at their desks at 6:30 a.m.-and at 6:30 p.m. as well. And both knew what it was like to fight their way from small-town Georgia to fame and power...
Like Carter, Lance came from a modest but not penurious background. He spent his early years in the small north Georgia town of Young Harris (pop. 310), where his father was president of a tiny Methodist college. Lance went to school in a four-room building. "Everybody liked him, even though his father was the president of the college " recalls Georgia's Lieut. Governor Zell Miller, who shared a double desk with Lance and has remained a good friend ever since. "It's really something to be that popular when the rest of the children in the class...
...sultan called Buffles, who keeps the past alive with elaborate polo parties. The village itself is a cultural stockpot of Chinese secret societies, Communist cells, Indian sports clubs and groups calling themselves the South Malaysian Pineapple Growers' Association, the Muslim League, the Legion of Mary and the Methodist Ramblers...