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DIED. Hobart Freeman, 64, reclusive founder of a controversial eleven-year-old faith-healing sect, the Faith Assembly, whose 2,000 members are taught to shun medicine on the grounds that it is linked to witchcraft and that doctors are little better than magicians; of heart disease, pneumonia and gangrene; in Shoe Lake, Ind. Freeman, a former Baptist Bible scholar who told his followers that he would not die because prayer had enabled him to survive several heart attacks and an auto accident, was indicted last October in the death of a 15-year-old disciple from chronic kidney disease...
John Paul insists that Catholics must shun contraception...
...current preoccupation with healthy diets can become a form of skirmishing. Television Producer Irwin Rosten now asks his guests what they do and do not eat when he invites them to dinner; this can get quite complicated when the guests not only observe various religious dietary rules but shun salt or white bread or refined sugar. So many have given up red meat that Stacey Winkler no longer serves it unless she knows in advance that all her guests eat it. At large dinners, she says, she offers several smaller dishes at each course. Says Annenberg: "Some people are like...
...audience, thus stimulating a healthy interest in public affairs. They give voters their only chance to see the candidates side by side and compare them; they offer candidates their sole opportunity to make a sustained pitch to voters committed or leaning to the other side, who would ordinarily shun their rallies and ignore their TV spots...
...funds. In 1977 officials said that since federal grants went to some of its students, Grove City had to state in writing that it would comply with federal regulations forbidding discrimination against women. Grove City denied it discriminated but refused to sign because it was determined on principle to shun Government red tape. Now, nearly $400,000 in college legal costs later, the high bench has ruled that the student grants do indeed constitute federal aid, triggering federal oversight. But the Justices also found that since Grove City's financial-aid program is the only part of the school...