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Marty was reared in two Nebraska towns, West Point and Battle Creek. He was a member of the staunchly conservative Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod, which employed his father as an elementary school principal. He attended Synod schools from first grade through Concordia Seminary near St. Louis. The training was so European oriented, says Marty, that "I was 26 years old before I cracked a book in the field to which I have devoted my career," American religion...
Twenty-six states have passed mandatory seat-belt laws, but in two of them voters this year decided they would like the liberty to unlatch. Late tallies disclosed last week that on Election Day Nebraska repealed its seat-belt law by as few as 720 votes, out of more than 500,000 cast. Massachusetts voters also unsnapped their seat-belt requirement, by a 53%-to-47% vote...
...three largest states: California, Texas and Florida. For the first time since Reconstruction, Alabama will have a Republican Governor, and for only the second time in this century, a Republican will lead South Carolina. The G.O.P. captured governorships being vacated by Democrats in Maine, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. In Wisconsin, Republican Challenger Tommy Thompson ousted incumbent Democrat Anthony Earl. Democrats managed to win G.O.P.-held governorships in just three states: Oregon, Tennessee and Pennsylvania...
Still, the push for computer equality seems to be getting results. When members of the Neuter Computer team tested their ideas in schools in Vermont, Nebraska and California, they raised computer use among the girls from 26% to 48% in five months. By contrast, in the control group at a Texas school where no special efforts were made, participation by girls dropped during the same period from 14% to 10%. Says Author Sanders: "You must target girls specifically. Otherwise, it's business as usual...
...blow that finally doomed Administration lobbying efforts came from South Africa. In telephone conversations with two farm-state G.O.P. Senators, Iowa's Charles Grassley and Nebraska's Edward Zorinsky, Pik Botha warned that imposition of sanctions would result in retaliatory measures from Pretoria. South Africa would not only refuse to import any more American wheat (it bought 256,000 tons in the year ending last June) but also block grain deliveries to neighboring black states that depend on South Africa for commercial transport. Both Senators had been buttonholed near the Senate cloakroom by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, a friend...