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America's joy pealed from church belfries, rippled from flag staffs and wrapped itself in a million miles of yellow ribbon, tied around trees, car antennas and even the 32-story Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Barbara Deffley, wife of the Methodist minister in Holmer, Ill., rang the church bell 444 times, once for each day of captivity. "At about 200 pulls, I thought I'd never make it," she gasped. "Then at about 300 pulls, I got my second wind and kept going all the way." Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas W. McGee, 56, was too impatient to wait...
...became cautious, especially with the people who came in off the street. I'll tell you, that doesn't make you feel very easy in conversation with people." Sixteen months ago, his congregation joined 1,700 others in the Lutheran Church in America and 5,700 United Methodist congregations in group liability plans offered through the Atlantic Mutual Insurance...
Spelling and Goldberg are among the most successful of that struggling class. Spelling is a kind of Texas-style Woody Allen who put himself through Southern Methodist University, winning every drama award available before going to Hollywood. Goldberg grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He was chief of production for Screen Gems before forming the partnership with Spelling...
Holiday Bowl, December 19, at San Diego: One of the best and entertaining bowl games, with 10-1 BYU--which might have retained a shot at the national title had it not succumbed to New Mexico in the season opener--pitted against 8-3 Southern Methodist University. Brigham Young led the nation in offense, directed by the country's passing leader, quarterback Jim McMahon. McMahon's numbers make stat freaks drool--284 for 445, 4571 yds. SMU has improved gradually over the course of the autumn. BYU in a wild...
Precisely because of its influence, the RSV is now a target of Protestant feminists and other critics who want to purge it of the male chauvinism that they find running all through its pages. Says the Rev. Jeanne Audrey Powers, a United Methodist mission official: "People are becoming increasingly sensitive to language that renders half the human race invisible." As it happens, such sentiment is strong in the National Council of Churches (N.C.C.), whose education division is overseeing the RSV revision. But the N.C.C.'s leaders have hesitated to alter the RSV radically, partly because the organization gets...