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...Ford. The selection of Schweiker gave Reed that excuse. After taking phone calls from both Ford and Reagan, he finally convened a press conference in which he denounced Reagan's selection of Schweiker as "wrong and dumb. It was an act of desperation. It was a double sin inasmuch as it didn't work." Concluding that "the nomination contest is for all practical purposes over," he said he would support Ford, who had assured him that he would name a vice-presidential candidate who is "philosophically compatible with the mainstream of the Republican Party." Reed probably carries enough...
...Divine aid was considered more important than that of the physician. Only through God's grace could one escape disease or survive its attack. In The Angel of Bethesda, the first general treatise on medicine written in the colonies, Cotton Mather advised in 1724, "Lett us look upon Sin as the Cause of sickness...
...breath for the whole campaign, fearing that some new evidence might come out about the milk scandal. It may be contrary to the system of justice, since he was acquitted, but there are still a lot of folks with a gut feeling that John Connally was guilty as sin...
...those caught carrying guns away from their homes or places of business without the necessary permits. Because registration requirements were unchanged, even gun clubs joined in supporting the law which went into effect April 1, 1975. And up to a point it worked: 100,000 gun owners "living in sin" rushed to get authorization for their weapons that first month-ten times the usual number. But what was the effect on the crime rate...
...sell their books, moneychangers in some of the 263 booths were offering mawkish, illuminated paintings of Jesus, T shirts that proclaim HE IS RISEN, PRAISE THE LORD paper napkins and LAST JUDGMENT AT HAND bumper stickers. At convention concerts, Gospel crooners sang and spoke of their conversion from sin...