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...Minnesota's G.O.P. chairman, George Thiss, "about the best we may be able to do with it is what we did last year-weave and dodge and duck and pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: The Temper of the Times | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

Most of them seem to deny the major tenets of Christianity; less than 3% think that God is a supernatural being, 90% do not believe in the existence of life after death, 64% say that they seldom or never pray. On topical issues, they approve of abortion for any pregnant unmarried woman (72%), intercourse between unmarried persons (80%); 70% think it "very important" that churches be involved in the struggle for racial justice. Although 69% oppose any escalation of the war in Viet Nam, only one Unitarian in five thinks that the U.S. should unilaterally pull its forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unitarians: Growing Avant-Garde | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

Fairest of Them All. For Weight Watchers, the rewards are touchingly simple. Says Walter Jenson, 23, a Queens office clerk who went from 425 Ibs. to 191 lbs. and from size 60 pants to size 36 in one year: "I can get on my knees and pray better." Brooklyn Bookkeeper Alex Galietti, 29, finds that after losing 106 lbs., "I'm doing things I could never do as a teen-ager-skating and bike riding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: See You Lighter | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...irascible old man." The last two weeks before Luther's death he was obliged to spend in Mansfeld to restore peace between two quarreling brothers. During these two weeks he wrote five lively letters to Kate, telling her how much he loved her and extolling her to "pray, pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 31, 1967 | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

Another spiritual repository of the students is religion. They believe in God. They believe that God is "almighty." They have been told by the American government that they should pray to God for world peace and pray to God to "save" the youth of the socialist countries.. The aggression of American troops abroad is committed also to obey the will of God! In the United States "God" has become a tool of the monopolist clique to dope the youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Professor on 'Rotting' American Education 'Here and There at Harvard College' | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

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