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...began asking every parent to register and vote. In Alabama, Mondale campaign headquarters logged within hours 65 calls from women volunteers. But how widespread will this phenomenon be, how long will it last and to what ex- tent might it be offset by a backlash among men and more traditionalist women...
...Opus vision is immensely attractive to traditionalist Catholics with a strong sense of the church's mission. One well-known supernumerary is Russell Shaw, 49, public-affairs secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference. After his son went to an Opus camp, Shaw decided to attend retreats with a friend. "What I like about the organization is its seriousness," says Shaw. "If you're not committed 100%, you're in the wrong outfit." Numerary Joseph Billmeier, who directs the Opus center in Milwaukee, says that Opus kept him on "an even keel" during his New York stockbroker days...
...choice of Morgan, a marketing wonder but a complete outsider to both Atari and computers, at first seemed like another bizarre Warner decision. Morgan was an Easterner in a Californian's game, a traditionalist in a rootless industry, a believer in long-term growth in a market hooked on quick profit and instant gratification, a technological skeptic among scientific true believers. Morgan had run the Philip Morris tobacco-marketing division, whose products included such fast-rising brands as Virginia Slims and Merit, with an almost ostentatious lack of computers. He preferred writing meticulous longhand notes on legal pads...
...some nuns do ignore the directives that are certain to follow the current scrutiny of religious orders, one Vatican official cautions that "there could be a real housecleaning." For many American nuns, however, this will not be an issue: the Chicago-based Institute on Religious Life, representing 25,000 traditionalist members of religious President Malone orders, has expressed "joy and gratitude" at the Pope's firm hand...
...white television watcher can attest. Charts and graphs aid understanding, as any graduate of a high school algebra and trigonometry class knows. Most articles that continue beyond the page they start on fail to compel readers to turn the page. All sad but true facts for the newspaper traditionalist educator...