Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there's still Forrest Mars, the confectionary mogul, who reportedly opens up board meetings by leading the assembled executives in prayer: "God bless Mars Bars, God bless Milky Way bars...." If he gets a bright idea, J. Woodland Hastings will wake up in Snickers House...
...anyone deserves the maverick lable, it's Weicker. In Congress, he has voted against the GOP line as often as not, earning the wrath of the Republican hierarchy. On issues like busing, which he favors, and school prayer, which he opposes, Weicker has adhered to traditionally Democratic positions. And when Weicker stands alone among his party peers, he by no means constitutes a silent majority. "The problem with Lowell," says one Republican official in New Haven, "is that he makes too much goddamn noise...
...dramatic constrast to these pirouettes. Sen. James Sasser, a liberal Democrat, is being challenged by Rep. Robin Beard, a doctrinaire conservative whose views on social issues and national defense place him far right of even the Republican party. Earlier in the year. Beard's emphasis on abortion, school prayer, a balanced budget, and aid to communist countries seemed to be working. His assertions that Sasser had voted both ways at different times on several of these questions struck home in this Bible-belt state...
...your article about prayer in public school [Oct. 4], I wonder if Americans want the Christian church to have so much control of their day-to-day lives. Here in Israel the ultrareligious have a stranglehold on the country, reaching into almost every aspect of our affairs. While prayer in the classroom looks harmless, I doubt if that is where the Moral Majority wants to stop...
John Zachary De Lorean said not long ago that he is a devout Roman Catholic who, when in New York City, goes every day to St. Patrick's Cathedral. He said that he is a believer in prayer, and a "firm believer" in the Ten Commandments. He also, as improbable as it seems, detected parallels between his life and that of Jesus Christ. "In many ways," De Lorean said in 1980, "Jesus was an outsider. Some of the really big things in life are achieved by those who refuse to conform. I stood up for what I believed...