Word: robertson
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...integrity. Deserving victims of the new trend, who could no longer maintain their positive image in a newly-acute public eye, range from politicians as diverse as Ronald Reagan and Gary Hart to various and sundry purveyors of salvation in the evangelical movement such as Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Looking back over the changes in the American zeitgeist over the past nine months, we can only hope that "Substance Chic" is more than just a passing...
...Power is carried by 172 TV stations, shows a 3% dip in donations so far in 1987, but he does not consider that necessarily a result of the PTL scandal. The televangelist with the most to lose is the one with the biggest video operation, Republican Presidential Candidate Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network. He briefly took time out from the campaign trail to report that April donations were down a perilous 33%. "We can't just continue to have that sort of drain," said the worried preacher...
...presidency, he sacrifices his right of privacy. Congressman Jack Kemp, who has had to deny 20-year-old rumors of sexual misconduct, rejected the Times inquiry as "beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate." Vice President George Bush warned the press against "unseemly inquiries into private behavior." Pat Robertson, the other Baptist clergyman seeking the presidency, said national candidates should be held, at the very least, to the same standards of conduct as U.S. Marine guards stationed at the Moscow embassy...
...simply to stay in contention. Some candidates will have more difficulty than others. Nevada Republican Paul Laxalt, for instance, was once part of his state's gambling industry and is still pressing a libel suit against a newspaper chain, which, he claims, falsely implied his involvement in casino skimming. Robertson suffers indirectly from the turmoil among fellow televangelists and directly from an accusation that in 1951 he used political influence to evade combat duty in Korea. But for all of the contenders in both parties, the scandals of 1987 provide some clear guidance for 1988: keep your spouse in camera...
...seniors managed to win events in their last career meet. Chris "Robertson copped the 400-meter run with a time of 49.9, and Steve Pinney leapt to victory with a pole vault of 14-ft., 6-in Pinney also took third in the high jump with a 6-ft., 6-in. leap...