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Still, Ford's campaign aides profess confidence about winning many votes among the 30 million blue-collar workers. Says John Michels, the President's New England coordinator: "You can be firmly united in giving the marching orders, but you gotta have the troops behind you to win the fight." While blue-collar voters favored Carter over Ford by 55% to 32% in the recent Yankelovich survey, 29% of the Carter supporters among them harbored doubts that he is the right man for the job; only 13% of Ford's backers had similar misgivings...
...Visions. The Adventists, like many other Protestants, profess belief in the Bible as the "only unerring rule of faith and practice." But they also believe in the "Spirit of Prophecy," which for them is manifested in White's 2,000 or so visions, which she described in her voluminous writings. Among other things she opposed involvement in labor unions, the reading of fiction and the bearing of arms (Adventists are not conscientious objectors, but most serve in the military only as medics...
Says Russell Kruckman, who once taught literature at Northwestern: "I don't think people come here looking for a religion. What they come for is an experience that will give meaning and substance to their lives. You don't have to believe or profess anything to be a follower of Baba. We don't become Hindus. People get whatever it is they get from Baba, and their lives are changed...
...come the Methodists -not a new denomination at this point but an order of Anglican laymen who preach the revivalist Gospel and establish prayer cells. Rankin, who arrived from England in 1773, is their current American leader. Although some see them as "a church within a church," the Methodists profess religious loyalty to the Church of England. In fact, one hot-head was ejected from a Methodist society recently for usurping the clergy's role and offering Communion...
...private individuals. As long as they refuse to take the kind of position the administration took last spring in their dealings with companies like Aramco, the University will be tainted by their amorality. Value-free social science does not exist in the real world, and those like Crum who profess to practice it are in fact supporting the status quo. In places like Saudi Arabia, this is not only reprehensible but racist. No Harvard affiliate should accept such a position. It embarrasses not only them but the whole community, and should not continue...