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Home for the Ark. Jerusalem's religious importance actually begins with David. When the twelve tribes of Israel sought to consolidate their conquest of the Promised Land around 1000 B.C., David decided to capture the citadel from the Jebusites, a tribal ally of the Philistines. He did so after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Holy Land: City of War & Worship | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

Latter-Day Saints can now question some of the church's peculiar disciplines without being stigmatized by their neighbors. Although the U.S. Surgeon General's report on smoking confirmed the Mormon conviction that tobacco is an evil, there is widespread feeling that the church should relax its ban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mormons: Prosperity & Protest | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

Harvard-educated Stephen Becker, 39, is a fiddle-footed traveler with a facile pen. He has lived in China, France, Alaska and the Guianas and supported himself as a translator, biographer, historian, and novelist (A Covenant with Death). Recently he has shown signs of settling down-near Katonah, N.Y., and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solid as a Bridge | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

A Covenant with Death. Some people think character is an old-fashioned word. In this seemingly modest melodrama, Director Lament Johnson ambitiously attempts to bring the word up to date-to say what is wrong with an all-too-average American male, and what he has to do to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crisis of Character | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

On hearing of the covenant the Lord had made with Jonathan many rejoiced and proclaimed the glad tidings. Others there were, like as glad, who kept their mouths shut and placed their bets.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Numbers | 11/19/1966 | See Source »

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