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...some consumers have become part-time farmers. In suburban Hanover, Mass., several families are raising calves, sheep, pigs and chickens in their backyards; in Middlesex County, Mass., Agricultural Agent Ronald Athenas received 275 calls in a 24-hour period on his "hot line," which supplies gardening tips. On request, Seventh-day Adventists have recently mailed 7,000 booklets of meatless recipes to recent converts to vegetarianism. The Adventists have also sold 1,700 copies of their meatless cookbook ($2.95) at regional headquarters in Glendale, Calif...
...expectation of the Second Coming. German and Flemish painters of the 15th century turned eschatology, the study of "last things," into high art, epitomized by Jan Van Eyck's Last Judgment. The 19th century was rife with Second Coming excitements: one movement, the Millerites, eventually became the Seventh-Day Adventists. The "Millennial Dawn" group expected the end in 1914; they are now the Jehovah's Witnesses...
...Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, but the Elks, Moose, Eagles and Masons must pay taxes on their properties. The Lutheran Church's profit-making Augsburg Publishing House in Minneapolis is exempt, but Nashville's assessor has denied exemption to similar publishing enterprises of Methodists, Baptists and Seventh-day Adventists. The Holiday Inns at Greenville and Boaz, Ala., pay no taxes because the municipalities own them. The University of Michigan earns a tidy income from Willow Run Airport, on which it pays no property taxes; Michigan State University's exempt holdings include a large department store...
...construction of a new complex of church buildings, the Rev. John Dollard established a compulsory church membership fee of $8 per month. Dollard reasoned that his Roman Catholic parishioners at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Livermore, Calif., should be willing to pay the fare of their faith. Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists, after all, are required to tithe...
Contests, Contests. When Shirley was a child in Los Angeles, her Seventh-day Adventist parents were dismayed at her interest in opera: they loved "good" music but considered opera almost as frivolous as theater and jazz. But she was a girl with aggressive drive and unyielding self-assurance-and so proved it in her brief venture in real estate. Then Shirley won an Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts show in 1955, and the Juilliard School of Music gave her a full scholarship. Graduated in 1961, she had already made a successful Town Hall debut and been featured...