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...planes literally to blow a path for ground troops through Nazi minefields and fortifications, later played a major role in planning and carrying out the immensely complex invasion of Europe, with primary responsibility for making certain that land and sea forces had the fullest possible air cover; of Parkinson's disease; in Banstead, England...
Headed by Gaylord Parkinson, until recently California Republican chairman, the Nixon staff moved into a freshly whitewashed four-story building decked out with plush royal blue carpeting, flattering photographs of Nixon smiling with assorted statesmen, and Dick's new insignia, a white N-shaped bolt of lightning on a blue and red background. For his working staff, Parky, 48, has assembled a bright-looking thirtyish headquarters crew that seems to make up in zeal what it lacks so far in experience...
...well-worn hat settled gently last week on the rim of the 1968 presidential ring. In Bonn, West Germany, shortly after beginning a 21-month world tour, he acknowledged establishment of a national "Nixon for President Committee" headed by California's former Republican State Chairman Gaylord Parkinson...
...Parkinson, 48, the man who got California's Republicans to stop feuding and help elect Reagan Governor, retired as state chairman when his two-year term ended in January. An obstetrician who delivers more votes than babies, Parkinson has been an admirer of Nixon's for nearly two decades. "He is the man most eminently qualified as a national leader," says Parkinson. "He's respected everywhere around the world...
...bureaucratization of the churches. Although one target of the Reformation was the overweening power of the Roman Curia, hardly a U.S. church exists without a frightening quota of red tape and organizational concern. "The Law of Moses may have been abrogated," glooms Yale Historian Pelikan, "but not Parkinson's." Bureaucratic business goes hand in hand with clerical direction of the churches. "It is one of the great ironies of history," says Dean F. Thomas Trotter of California's Claremont School of Theology, "that whereas Protestantism began as an anticlerical movement, by and large today, at least in America...