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Ever so slowly, Con Edison found enough of it to relume sections of the city. At 5:28 a.m., precisely twelve hours after everything went black, a large section of midtown Manhattan blazed anew with light?causing those whose electric clocks were right on time to wonder the following morning whether it had all been only a dream...
...between primitive Christianity and Greek philosophy, an idol that is no longer relevant to secular culture and has been either neutralized by overexposure or rejected entirely. Thus, he declares, God is dead, and will remain so until the church becomes secular enough in structure and thought to proclaim him anew in ways that will fulfill the cultural needs of the times. Since the spirit of the times is irretrievably secular-with all notions of transcendence and otherworldliness rejected-Vahanian in his current study is working toward a historical explanation of how secularization came about...
...nations emerging these days that the anthems of Africa's two newest, Gambia and Zambia, appeared after the anthology had gone to press. At last count there were more than 150 assorted anthems in the world, hailing the glories of every nation from Red China ("Build anew the Great Wall from flesh and blood, arise!") to tiny Liechtenstein ("Where the chamois freely jumps about") and Cameroon ("In barbaric times you lived your early days/But bit by bit you now are leaving savage ways...
...case anyone still wondered what policies Rajaratnam would be promoting, after Lee's triple-barreled anti-U.S. blast last month (TIME, Sept. 10), the Prime Minister also called in a couple of Western newsmen and described anew the catastrophe that would result if the U.S. ever took over from the British out his way. This time he had a truly sensational alternative to propose. If Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman ever called on U.S. forces to replace the British in neighboring Malaysia, said Lee, "I'm telling the Tunku that I would consider offering Singapore...
...than 150 miles up, the astronauts were able to get detailed shots of the launch pads at Cape Kennedy, the sharp relief of mountains and deserts, and incredible sights of underwater coral reefs (see color pages). The more than 1,000 pictures that they took with four cameras* demonstrated anew the potential of space photography for scientific and military applications...