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...subject of The First Time was something that had been preying on his mind for a long time, he says, as a result of the puritanical atmosphere he grew up in, in a Methodist orphanage in North Carolina where he and the other children "had religion pumped into every orifice of our little helpless bodies, and of course everything about sex was verboten, it was dirty, it was sinful, it was guilt-ridden...
Radcliffe's loss was its second defeat of the fall, to go along with a scoreless tie against SMU (as in Southeastern Massachusetts, not Southern Methodist). The stickhandlers, who posted just one triumph a year ago, are now victoryless in their last four games...
...case capped a 34-year career that began soon after the Texas-born Bates graduated in 1941 with a major in government from Southern Methodist University, where he had met his first FBI agent. Recalled Bates: "He was a sharp young fella and he carried a gun, which impresses any young man." So he joined up too. After assignments in Newark and Washington, Bates worked for seven years in the U.S. embassy in London as liaison with Scotland Yard. Returning to the U.S. in 1965, he became chief of the FBI office in Omaha and later had similar assignments...
...Ford's week was spent indoors. Friday night he was in Kansas City, Kans., for another fund raiser; on Saturday he flew to Dallas, and amid inevitable reminders of John Kennedy, Ford addressed some 2,000 members of the National Federation of Republican Women and spoke at Southern Methodist University. Then he journeyed to Midland, Texas, where he dedicated the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum and was thanked with a shower of rose petals-a fitting gesture in a week when Congress sustained his veto of an oil decontrol bill...
...Alfred, a Methodist lay preacher and unabashed autocrat, is remembered with charged and mixed feelings on the shop floor. He often sided with his manual workers against the office staff, referring to the managers