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...sales: $11.4 billion) makes, including Crest toothpaste, Jif peanut butter and a host of soap and detergent products. Lately, however, it has become a major corporate problem because of a virulent whispering campaign alleging that the logo is satanic and that Procter & Gamble is somehow involved in the worship of the devil. The talk first surfaced in January 1980, and reappeared two years later when the firm began getting thousands of phone calls about stories that company officials had confessed on the Phil Donahue and Merv Griffin television shows that Procter & Gamble and its top executives were supporting devil worship...
...remarkable 1978 account of his personal odyssey. That book ended with a capsule account of the 1960 presidential race and White's portrait of triumphant John Kennedy as the most prescient, commanding politician he had encountered. Early in his final work, White does mouth some of the same hero-worship, saying that JFK alone might qualify as "a rare personality--a Roosevelt, a Churchill, a Mao, a Monet--[who] might alter the direction of the forces, and make his own life a legend, a starting point of future departures...
...Pope also doused protesters with a shower of papal blessings. A band of young extremists who hurled eggs at the Popemobile (none hit their mark) were quickly hustled away by police. In Glasgow a paltry 100 militant Protestants paraded in protest near by while the Pope led the main worship. At every protest demonstration, he seemed unfazed-and unmoved...
...After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." So begins an early (1643) manifesto of Harvard's aims; in those days, it was a rare graduate indeed who did not take to the pulpit once his sheepskin...
...Klingensmith began to reexamine his faith, attending first the local Methodist Church and, then Harvard's Memorial Church where he eventually became head usher. The Rev. Peter Gomes' preaching, he says, is "outstanding and very helpful," but "I got involved there because I wanted to worship with my fellow undergraduates...I don't like the denominational spirit in general, and this was a good chance to escape it for four years." As well, it was a chance to watch friends who "go to church once a year, coming in unwashed, unshaven, with the sand still in the corners of their...