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...religious foundations abound. The national motto, "In God We Trust," is imprinted on all of our currency. We refer to God in our national anthem and in "America." President Reagan has proclaimed a Jewish Heritage Week as well as declaring 1983 the "Year of the Bible." The words "Anno Domini" (translated: "in the year of our Lord") or "A.D." have pervaded our time references, are chiseled into nearly every federal building, and are found in every Presidential document. And the most telling of all, we publicly continue to celebrate the birth and crucifixion of Jesus Christ in our two most...
When Prosecutor Paolino Dell'Anno questioned Claudia's version of the second attack, outraged feminists charged that there was a "sexist conspiracy" against her. In her hospital room, where feminists took up a round-the-clock vigil, Claudia denounced the suggestion that she might have imagined or staged the second rape...
...Anno's Alphabet (Crowell; $6.95), Artist Mitsumasa Anno exhibits a gifted mind as well as hand. Twenty-six illustrations mount ingenious optical illusions in the shape of letters (see story head above-? 1974 by Fukuinkan-Sho-ten);on the opposite pages are objects beginning with those letters. With scrupulous detail Anno simultaneously dazzles, entertains and instructs in the best alphabet book of the year...
...those flinthearted skeptics and chimney-corner Christians who never really believed that the meek shall inherit the earth, let it be recorded that on Sept. 10, anno Domini 1969, at 8:43 p.m. (EOT), the New York Mets (TIME cover, Sept. 5), the court jesters of baseball for seven long, lugubrious years, marched triumphantly past the Chicago Cubs and into first place in the National League's Eastern Division standings. Naturally, in defeating the Montreal Expos 3-2 to achieve that pinnacle, the Mets committed three errors and struck out 16 times...
...Saul Alinsky's Community Service Organization, Cesar began to act on Alinsky's precept that concerted action is the only means through which the poor can gain political and economic power. Chavez, a Roman Catholic, has delved deeply into the papal social encyclicals, especially Rerum Novarum and Quadra-gesimo Anno.* "What Cesar wanted to reform was the way he was treated as a man," recalls his brother Richard. "We always talked about change, but how could we go about it?" Cesar Chavez went about it by working with the C.S.O. among Mexican Americans for ten years. Then...