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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Engineer Roman Kuzovatkin turns a tap on a loop of steel pipe that juts from a snowbank near Samotlor. A spurt of fine black oil sprays the surrounding drifts. Moments later, a helicopter whips up a snowstorm as it takes off to ferry equipment to construction crews that are dynamiting the frozen earth to lay new pipelines. Farther to the north in the Nadym gas fields hard by the Arctic Circle, the long nights are thunderously lit by giant flares of blazing gas. It will soon light Western Europe and may one day heat New York. Two thousand miles...
...capstone to decades of religious this-worldliness. Ever since Theologian Walter Rauschenbusch began to preach his social gospel at the end of the 19th century, there had been a growing feeling in U.S. Protestantism that religion was not a thing of pious Sundays but of vigorous, shirtsleeve weekdays. Many Roman Catholics and Jews were also trying to involve their churches and synagogues more directly in the struggles for racial justice and economic equality. The decade of the '60s brought enthusiasm for secular religion to its peak...
Many Reform Jews are returning to some of the observances of Halakhah (Jewish religious law), and Conservative Jews are tightening their own practices. The ranks of Roman Catholic traditionalists are growing, especially such militant reactionaries as Catholics United for the Faith. Some run their own schools, eschewing all sex education and teaching the officially discarded Baltimore Catechism ("Why did God make me?" "God made me to know, love and serve him in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next"). One of the two major U.S. Eastern Orthodox communions, the Orthodox Church in America, last week...
...tongues. These neo-Pentecostalists tend to be more subdued than the "classic" Protestant Pentecostalists whose churches date back to spiritual revivals that began toward the close of the past century. But even as churchgoing members of mainstream denominations, the new Pentecostalists keep their special spiritual exercises quite separate. The Roman Catholic Pentecostalists are currently the fastest growing: they number well over 100,000, up from a mere handful six years...
...through Mexico with an eagle in tow. George Gattling, an otherwise sober, hardworking owner of an auto-seatcover business in Gainesville, Fla., is determined to train a red-tailed chicken hawk, which he keeps perched on his wrist. Frequently consulting his talismanic text, The Art of Falconry by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, George croons to the hawk, fasts when it fasts, even takes it with him when he goes to bed with his girl friend...