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...wealthy Republican businessman who served as Governor from 1979 to 1983, Clements regained the office last November from Democrat Mark White, partly by accusing him of duplicity. As chairman of the board of governors of Southern Methodist University, a post he gave up when he took office in Austin, Clements assailed the S.M.U. system for permitting wealthy boosters to pay football players to perform for the Dallas school. Such practices brought the school seven citations from the National Collegiate Athletic Association for violating its rules...
Chronic cheater Southern Methodist University last week was expelled from football for a season and hamstrung for years to come by the most debilitating penalties ever assessed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. For alumni payments to their players, among other excesses, the Mustangs must hibernate in 1987. They may resume in 1988, but only for seven road games, and there is to be a two-year blackout of live TV. When all the lost revenue is totted up, it may amount to a $4 million fine...
...escalation does not extend to all branches of Protestantism. Until World War II, mission endeavor was ruled by boards of such "mainline" denominations, affiliated with the National Council of Churches and Canadian Council of Churches, as the United Methodist and Presbyterian churches. But these groups have lately suffered a "precipitous decline" in overseas staffs, the Handbook reports, to less than half the total in the late 1960s. Since then, the expanding Evangelical and Fundamentalist boards, mostly independent of denominational control, have all but taken over...
...more than $160,000 each day. That was the good news. But there was also the bad news: a television channel in Washington dumped two January episodes of his 30-minute telecast. Seven other outlets, including stations in Tulsa and Dallas, are now monitoring each of the United Methodist preacher's syndicated shows to see if they fit the stations' standards. The Tulsa Tribune, a somewhat sympathetic observer of Roberts over the years, declared in an editorial headline, COME OFF IT, ORAL...
Programming is so important that a New Age breed of crystal therapists has sprung up to teach the uninitiated how to harness their rock power. Brett Bravo, 54, who was raised a strict Methodist in Texas, left organized religion in l975 to follow her "evolutionary spiritual path" to Solana Beach, Calif., where she conducts weekly seminars on how to program crystals. In a $45 one-day session, participants learn to cure ailments, erase negativity and recharge energy stores. "The way the stones heal," claims Bravo, "is by man's electrical field combining with the crystal's electromagnetic field. This affects...