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...McGovern. Three electoral votes. Maybe if he carried New York and California--and Texas. But Nixon had already hit the triple figures. The 270 electoral votes needed to win were barely out of reach. A Coke commercial came on showing respectful young faces at the marble throne of Abraham Lincoln. There were seraphim singing in the background...
...have been driven many times to my knees," Abraham Lincoln once admitted, "by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." Jonathan Livingston Seagull clearly speaks to some kind of need in America for words of inspiration that do not instantly turn to ashes on the tongue. The Catholic Mass has been largely shriven of ritual mystery. Protestant sermons are soggy with sociology. Occultism, though thriving (TIME, June 19), comes on too much like fraternity rites staged by the devil's disciple. The old maxims ("This above all: To thine own self be true"; "I thank whatever gods...
...Transit's demise marks the end of an era. For nearly a century after Abraham Brower began running horse-cars along New York City's Broadway around 1830, privately owned transit systems throughout the U.S. were the only trains in town. Robber barons made fortunes on them, street traction stocks became a mainstay in widows' portfolios, and the Toonerville Trolley was enshrined on the funny pages. Then ridership began to fall off as automobiles flooded the streets, and local governments and independent transit authorities had to rush in and buy out the lines to keep them running...
...agrarian units under a feudal hierarchy, a fearsome religion is the bulwark of the status quo, and inbred into the people. Only when her youngest daughter dies is Kristina convinced that God wants her family to move elsewhere; only when Danjell claims to have heard God's call to Abraham in his inner voice, saying, "Get the to a land that I will show the," does he join with them...
...African blacks are excluded from the Mormon priesthood because they are said to be descendants of Noah's cursed son Ham and his wife Egyptus, a descendant of the fratricide Cain. Supported mainly by the Mormon Book of Abraham, a document "translated" from Egyptian burial papyri by Joseph Smith in 1835, this teaching resembles the Southern Christian theology that was used to justify slavery. Historians have noted that the Mormons, who began as egalitarians, were sojourning in slave-state Missouri-and having serious troubles with their Missouri neighbors about their free black brethren-when Smith's revelation...