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...speaks each year to more than 100 religious gatherings, for which he takes no fee, only expenses. He has appeared at Presbyterian, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches, but his messages seem most at home in Baptist independents like the Kelview Heights Baptist Church in Midland, Texas, where he spoke last week...
...serious is Maddox about his witnessing that he went to his Midland appearance only hours after getting out of a hospital, where he had been treated for pulled ligaments and scrapes suffered in a bicycle accident during a Georgia Jaycee parade. Once in the pulpit, he limbered up quickly: "We hear a lot about not mixing government and religion. Well, I think the intent of our forefathers was to keep government out of the church. But don't keep God's people out of government. I'm not politicking, but I am campaigning-I'm campaigning...
...exchange for their own investment purposes. Companies are allowed to buy foreign currency only for import and export deals or for officially sanctioned overseas investment. The rising burden of bureaucratic paperwork could threaten London's role as a world financial center. Says an official of London's Midland Bank: "These days I push paper for the government...
...import surcharge longer than we should and touch off a trade war," says Robert Johnson, economist for Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, a big brokerage house. "It could lead to a worldwide recession, and that worries me more than anything." Domestically, adds Richard Johnson, president of Dreyfus-Marine Midland Management Corp., the economy is going through "sort of a limbo period." Analysts are still waiting for the first conclusive signs of the "great year" that Nixon has promised for 1972, and for some concrete idea of the toughness or laxity of the controls that will follow the end of the freeze...
...controversies in Midland and New York City point up an escalating battle that could have a marked effect on the quality of life in the U.S. Unless the growing demand for power can be met, the high standard of living made possible by a highly industrialized society may well be jeopardized. Yet if nuclear plants are allowed to proliferate without proper safeguards, their cumulative effect could produce an ecological disaster...