Although it is only September and the Feast is still just ahead of us, next year's Plain Truths are now being produced in Editorial Services. Let me share with you some of the behind-the-scenes planning going into January's Plain Truth.
Mr. Armstrong's new book Mystery of the Ages began running serially in The Plain Truth in July-August of this year. In January we will run Chapter 3, "The Mystery of Man." we are also running the first installment of Mr. Armstrong's new booklet "The Bible — Superstition or The Authority...and Can You Prove It?" It will run in two parts in The Plain Truth.
The January Plain Truth cover will be especially eye-catching as it focuses on "Trends to watch for in 1986." Specific trends will be pulled out of Gene Hogberg's accompanying article to be featured on the cover.
Other features in the January Plain Truth include a forceful article by Keith Stump on the Soviet economic crisis. It will show how the Soviet Union's growing economic woes will ultimately force the Kremlin to cut loose its Eastern European satellites, allowing them to associate with Western Europe.
At Mr. Armstrong's request, we are editing an article taken from a talk by Abu Odeh to employees and students here in Ambassador Auditorium June 7. Mr. Odeh is a minister of the royal court of Jordan. The article is titled "'What We Need Most Is Peace' — A Palestinian Speaks Out."
We had such a good response from teenagers to John Halford's article "Youth Should Protest — but How?" in the July-August edition, that we're planning several articles to appeal specifically to that audience throughout the year. In January we are running an article of mine from the Youth magazine, "Are You Sure Everybody's Doing It?"
In the booklet area Mr. Armstrong has certainly been keeping us busy! In addition to his full-sized book Mystery of the Ages, Mr. Armstrong has revised and combined material from the former "Who Is the Beast?" and The Mark of the Beast booklets to form a new booklet "Who or What Is the Prophetic Beast?" Also, as mentioned before he has given us the manuscript for "The Bible — Superstition or Authority...and Can You Prove It?" Both booklets should be good attention-getters for advertising on television and in other literature.
Just today, as this is being written, we received material for an entirely new booklet Mr. Armstrong has written, titled "Are We in the Last Days?" This is a fresh approach to the subject and will replace the former, outdated and no longer distributed "Are We Living in the Last Days?" booklet. It will likewise be a good subject for advertising. All of the above will, of course, be illustrated.
Someone has pointed out that the text of the reprint "Is All Animal Flesh Good to Eat?" still included swordfish among the unclean food, while the accompanying up-dated chart correctly lists it among the clean (the fish when young has lightly attached scales). This overÂsight will be remedied in the next printing.
If you have any questions or suggestions for the publications, be sure to let me know here in Editorial Services, and we will try to include some of them in this report later on.
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