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...there are clubs in as many as 1 out of every 4 public schools in the country. In some areas the tally is much higher: evangelicals in Minneapolis-St. Paul claim that the vast majority of high schools in the Twin Cities region have a Christian group. Says Benny Proffitt, a Southern Baptist youth-club planter: "We had no idea in the early '90s that the response would be so great. We believe that if we are to see America's young people come to Christ and America turn around, it's going to happen through our schools...
...Texas has donated $2,500 to GOVERNOR GEORGE BUSH'S re-election campaign. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR BOB BULLOCK wrote a check to the Bush campaign at an Aug. 21 fund raiser at Austin's Four Seasons Hotel. "It wasn't a Democrat-Republican thing," says longtime Bullock spokesman Tony Proffitt. "He feels Bush has been good for Texas...
...like Bentsen have another problem. Special elections, and particularly one in the Christmas season of a year when many voters are disconnected from the campaign, usually favor the superior organizational skills of Republicans. "We'll have to hire Greyhound buses to get people to the polls," sighs Democrat Tony Proffitt, a Texas political operative...
With the cutoff of voter registration for the November election set for this week in Oregon, and with fears growing of a Wasco County coup by the Rajneeshees, County Clerk Sue Proffitt took unusual action. She announced that she was automatically rejecting all new applications for voter registration. Each applicant, she said, could seek a hearing at which his or her eligibility would be decided. She was doing so, she said, to stop "organized efforts to fraudulently register people." The cumbersome process would effectively stall any massive Rajneesh registration...
...Proffitt lives near Beaver Dam Road in Watauga County, North Carolina. His voice is flat, coarse, aloof and unsentimental. Close your eyes and you can smell the corn mash in the still and see the heat waves over the road. Proffitt makes his own fretless banjos, cutting down hardwoods and killing groundhogs to get his materials. Years ago, he sang a song called Tom Dula for a visiting folk scholar. It was later recorded by the Kingston Trio as Tom Dooley. If any one event touched off the present folk boom in popular music, that was it. The Kingstons have...