Word: calvinism
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Theodore Roosevelt, renowned for his vigor, sometimes used to finish his presidential work by noon and go off romping with the kids in the afternoon. He was underemployed. Calvin Coolidge slept twelve hours a night. There are those who claim that even that much sleep was not enough to get him going. Lyndon Johnson kept moving by insisting on an afternoon nap "with my britches off' and a cold wake-up shower with nozzle pressure of 80 lbs. per sq. in. Richard Nixon withdrew from the world for days to marshal his strength. Ford just keeps going...
...that naked lady doing in a fashion show? Juliet Prowse, 38, in the buff will be the highlight of this year's Fashion Awards, to be aired on March 19 on ABC. It is not intended to be an insult to the winners, who include Designers Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, but simply a moment in the history of fashion. "It's a musical montage-type thing, starting with a naked Eve and back full circle to almost naked in a string bikini," explains Juliet. There is apparently no danger of a network furor over...
Died. Ida Fuller, 100, first Social Security recipient (number: 000-00-0001); in Brattleboro, Vt. A classmate of Calvin Coolidge's, Miss Fuller was docked a total of $22 in Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes, got 421 monthly installments totaling $20,940.85 from Uncle Sam since January 1940, when she received America's first Social Security check...
Harvard will probably admit at least 30 and possibly as many as 40 transfer students for the 1975- 76 academic year, Calvin N. Mosley. Associate Director of Admissions for transfers and special students, said yesterday...
...historical setting of the Bible became the subject of investigations with the coming of the Reformation. Luther and Calvin believed doctrine should be based on "Scripture alone," not ecclesiastical tradition. Though the Reformers had a complete trust in the Bible's reliability and developed their own creeds to reinforce its teachings, their insistence that each individual read the Bible for himself set the stage for the rise of radical new ideas that they would have abhorred. In the 17th century the Dutch Philosopher Baruch ("Benedict") Spinoza, an excommunicated Jew, used a method that would be widely emulated by rationalist critics...