ABOVE the entrance to the specially built 8,000-seat "tabernacle," a banner proclaims: BILLY GRAHAM'S GREATER ALBUQUERQUE CRUSADE. Despite the threatening windy weather which has dusted the nearby Sandia Mountains with the season's first snow, some 7,000 people are already waiting in the steel and tar-paper structure—the largest indoor gathering ever assembled in Albuquerque. A Plymouth sedan drives up, and out of it steps the Rev. William Franklin (Billy) Graham, showman, salesman, pressagent, preacher— the hottest Protestant soul-saver since the late Billy Sunday quit the sawdust trail. Albuquerque last week had the honor...
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