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...those interested in making it in the more traditional sense, the Success Motivation Institute of Waco, Texas (dedicated to "motivating people to their full potential") offers cassette lectures on the dynamics of supervision, sales training and becoming financially independent. There is also a three-part family program, covering such topics as "Handling Frustration and Conflict," "What It Means to Become a Woman" and "Keep Your Eye On Your Attitudes." Among SMI's customers are several members of the Kansas City Chiefs-after winning the 1970 Super Bowl, the Chiefs failed to make the playoffs in the season just ended...
...huge Protestant evangelical market, however, is flourishing. Word, Inc., a record-and-book publishing firm in Waco, Texas, has produced a pair of phenomenal bestsellers on spiritual group dynamics by an Episcopalian oilman named Keith Miller (TIME, Sept. 19). Together they have sold some 700,000 hardback copies. Other evangelical bestsellers stress personal experience. David Wilkerson's The Cross and the Switchblade, for instance, tells of Wilkerson's life as a street minister amid New York City's gangs, and has sold more than 6,000,000 copies, mostly in paperback, in 24 languages. Some...
...subdivisions I worked were almost as horrifying as the Collier's sales pitch. There were flags everywhere-on poles, stuck on cars, even pasted to front doors. There were even more yapping dogs than there were flags. And at least three of the streets seemed to be named "Waco...
Throughout a long Texas night, 43 troubled soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division squatted defiantly in a parking lot at Fort Hood, far out in the wasteland between Waco and Austin. They had been ordered to Chicago as part of the force massed by Mayor Richard Daley to guard the Democratic Convention from antiwar demonstrators and a feared eruption of Negro militants. The violence that later engulfed the convention was viewed with cool, apolitical disdain by Chicago's Negroes, but Daley was taking no chances. The 43 troopers were black too. And rather than risk...
...Waco, Texas...