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Vol XLI, No. 6
July 1976
ARTICLES
World Peace - How lt Will Come
The Spirit of America: From Plymouth
Rock to the Moon
How America Was Really Won
Democracy: the Ultimate Government?
Faith of the Founding Fathers
Are We Neglecting Our Nation's Youth?
Four Child-rearing Basics
What Are You Waiting For?
The Eagle of the East
FEATURES
Personal from the Editor
Commentary: Pressures lntensify in
Southern Africa
Garner Ted Armstrong Speaks Out!
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This famous painting,
The Nation
Makers
by Howard Pyle, the father of
American illustration, graphically de–
picts the grim determination of tattered
Continental troops during the American
Revol ution. But was America really
" won" by force of arms, or was it, in
fact, a
divine bequest?
See page 6.
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