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...hour and his wife attended services at the Bel Air Presbyterian Church and then went into seclusion. The President-elect spent the week riding, chopping wood and relaxing with Nancy on their California ranch. But from midweek on, Ronald Reagan's emissaries streamed into Washington, packing the "redeye" overnight flights from the West Coast. Said one adviser: "A lot of tired people are trying to get things going." They faced one of the most intricate tasks in democratic government: arranging a transfer of power from a defeated Administration to an incoming regime vastly different in philosophy, policies...
...just how healthy are they? That question was raised last week at a press conference called by Dr. John Roglieri of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. An ambitious New York internist, who took advantage of the meeting to make available to reporters copies of his latest book on health risks, Roglieri complained that voters are forced to rely on assessments made by each candidate's physician, and that these are not standardized...
Preyer supports increased military spending, but also increased aid to the elderly, farm price supports, and the development of alternative energy sources. When asked why, as a Presbyterian elder who has been married for 34 years and has five children, he does not make an issue of Johnston's three divorces, Preyer replies, "It would be mudslinging...
Lewinsville Presbyterian Church...
...total enrollment of 35.6 million (27.1 million Protestant, 8.5 million Catholic). Still, if Wesley were alive, he would be glum. Except for conservative churches like the Southern Baptists, who are doing well, Sunday school participation has dropped by almost 25% in the past ten years. "Mainline" Protestant churches-Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, have been worst hit. Says California's Institute for American Church Growth: "The Sunday school is in a desperate struggle for its very existence...