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Lawrence Parker, 34, is an unemployed aerospace worker in Barstow, Calif., whose family trusts deeply in its Pentecostal faith. Though their son Wesley, 11, had been suffering from diabetes for five years, Lawrence and Alice Parker took the boy two weeks ago to their local Assembly of God church to be treated by a visiting South American minister who claimed that he had healed himself through prayer. "We believe in faith healing," says Parker. "The preacher felt that he was healed and Wesley felt that he was healed." So sure were the Parkers that the cure had worked that they...
...perhaps historic point this week. While President Nixon entertains the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev in a visit symbolic of Nixon's loftiest accomplishments in office, most of the nation will be tuned with a mixture of fascination and fear to the televised words of John Wesley Dean III, who observed and participated in the worst of the Administration's illegality and misconduct. The words of Dean, the fired presidential counsel, may well determine whether the President will emerge from the Watergate tragedy totally crushed, severely crippled, or with a solid chance to regain some...
Late one week last March, John Wesley Dean Ill's telephone rang. It was the President calling with a friendly suggestion. Why didn't he take his pretty wife to Camp David for the weekend...
...stopped backing the dollar with gold in 1971, however, the price has soared to more than $100. The Senate has passed a bill allowing Americans to sell gold at market prices, and if the House votes to follow suit, it may set off the greatest stampede since the Klondike. Wesley Brewer, chief of the California State mines and geology division, says of the change in fashions: "It used to be that all anyone cared about was earthquakes. Now it's all gold mines...
Divorced. Svetlana Alliluyeva Peters, 47, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, who made headlines in 1967 by defecting to the U.S. and minor literary ripples with her memoirs of life with papa; and William Wesley Peters, 60, chief architect of the Wright Foundation and former husband of Frank Lloyd Wright's late daughter Svetlana; after three years of marriage, one child; in Phoenix, Ariz. Svetlana Alliluyeva married Peters after a three-week courtship, then left him because of her objections to life in the architecture community, Taliesin West...