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...with neon-sign regularity and radiating a homeyness rarely found in homes. When the flow of words is finally finished, he looks straight into the listener's eyes and ends with a benison: "God bless you.'1 The man with the magic voice and manner is neither preacher, politician nor gunslinger-though he needs to be a good deal of each in his business. He is James Martin Moran. 42. the ebullient, aggressive and imaginative owner and president of Chicago's Courtesy Motor Sales Inc. To Chicagoans he is known simply as "Jim Moran. the Courtesy...
...much the same reason, McCalla's suicide is only mildly tragic. In a long paragraph at the end, and once or twice during the proceedings, Halberstam indicates that the new sheriff was caught between duty to his supporters (father, preacher, frigid and nagging wife) on the one hand, and, on the other, a desire to say the hell with it all (frigid and nagging wife). Although he flatly and ethically rejects Angelo's offer of five thousand dollars a year, in return for a certain averting of the eyes, he goes for Claudia, the prostitute, like an alcoholic...
...even includes a House roll call, was occupied on other fronts last week. In Manhattan, he launched a $450,000 expansion project for his Abyssinian Baptist Church, threatened three collections per Sunday service until the crash campaign was completed. In the capital for a radio interview the same day. Preacher Powell, who has been indicted but never convicted in a still pending income-tax-evasion case, exuded brotherly love for Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Said the House Education and Labor Committee chairman: "Mr. Hoffa has completely vindicated himself before the courts. If he is as bad as he is supposed...
...godless East German regime - and there were many who felt that his intransigence made life still harder for E.K.D. pastors under Communist control. The question before the synod: Should the delegates vote to continue Dibelius' policies by electing his deputy, Bishop Hanns Lilje, 61, an able preacher and administrator whose name is anathema to the Communists? Or should they find a candidate less provocative to the Reds...
...axiom that basic traits are transmitted by genes that cannot be changed by training the parent organism. Lysenko's dictatorship died with Stalin. But now Lysenko is back in bloom, not as a declaimer of dogmas, since Nikita Khrushchev does not care much about that, but as a preacher of the kind of husbandry that Khrushchev hopes will whip up the country's badly lagging farm output...