Word: valleys
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...mayor, the scandals could be disastrous. Yorty's principal voter support has come from the white middle-class residents of the San Fernando Valley, a vast expanse of tract homes and shopping centers northwest of the city's heart. "Sam's people," as they are called, do not insist upon political heavyweights as their elected representatives. But they are strong law-and-order advocates with an especially low tolerance for official malfeasance...
...Miracle Valley. Born in Arkansas, Allen was converted from Methodism to Pentecostalism in his early 20s, when he heard a woman evangelist preach in a country church, eventually became a minister with the Assemblies of God. By 1953, he was already concentrating on faith healing-and prospering. Three years later, the Assemblies of God dismissed him for failing to appear at a church trial resulting from a Tennessee drunken-driving arrest, but Allen hardly seemed to care. The same year, he organized his own Miracle Revival Fellowship, which claims to be nondenominational, but has become in effect an independent sect...
Located on 1,250 acres of desert land in Arizona's Cochise County, Miracle Valley today is a teetotaling, nonsmoking oasis of evangelistic fervor and hard-nosed business. At the Miracle Valley Bible College, 100 students from as far away as the Philippines (his "special" mission territory) study the Allen brand of evangelism. In its busy headquarters building, squads of secretaries, mail clerks and printers attend the banks of file cards, automatic typewriters and offset presses that allow Allen to print and mail out more than 55 million pieces of literature every year. TV and radio technicians stand...
...WORLD CUP SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS (ABC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The world's leading skiers meet in Squaw Valley, Calif., in hopes of winning the honors held by Jean-Claude Killy and Nancy Greene...
...Cliffies were less successful in a meet February 15 at Waterville Valley. Barnes was first and Robin McLane was third among 53 racers, but the University of Massachusetts won the meet, with Radcliffe finishing third...