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...Bible, Jesus angrily threw the money-changers out of the temple. But the Stewardship Bank of Oregon, outside Portland, believes that it has found the perfect blend of God and mammon. Founded last March by a group of born-again Christians, the financial institution now serves as holy bankroller for 900 depositors. The staff holds a daily prayer meeting before unlocking the safe, and tellers at times deliver a sermonet with deposits and withdrawals. A share of the bank's profits will be tithed to Christian education projects...
After seeing what Rense did with his tired little trade book, Knapp, 45, started throwing other challenges her way. In 1975 he purchased the budget recipe book Bon Appétit from the Pillsbury Co. Under Rense's stewardship, Bon Appetit (circ. 1.3 million) has become the culinary equivalent of Digest, with glossy color photographs of such dishes as caramel cream puff bouchees and oyster and spinach souffle. Says Rense: "I have no interest in a magazine that tells you 1,001 ways to prepare hamburger. I wanted a cooking magazine for people like me who are too busy...
...thousands of people who visit the public lands around Crested Butte each year continue to benefit from our stewardship. In the future we hope to have more than just photographs to show our children what used to be here-unspeakable beauty...
About the only measure we can take of this delicate time in Reagan's battle stewardship comes from the after math of John Kennedy's death and the days following the attempts on the life of Gerald Ford. Lyndon Johnson, though not wounded in the Kennedy shooting, was made aware of his own vulnerability. Aides remember that he took precautions about his safety, but his sense of political urgency heightened. What time he had in the White House he wanted to use totally for his Great Society goals...
DIED. Mark Ethridge, 84, liberal, outspoken journalist who as publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times between 1936 and 1963 helped lift both newspapers to national prominence; in Moncure, N.C. Ethridge's Louisville stewardship was distinguished by expanded, gimmick-free news coverage, enlivened writing and makeup, and an editorial page that spoke out strongly against such targets as poverty and racism, the latter of which he once described as "a complete humiliation of all people who profess any faith in democracy...