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...best available then, but 20th century research has turned up texts that are as many as 1,000 years closer to the originals. The ending to the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6: 13, for instance, beginning with "for thine is the kingdom." is not in the earliest manuscripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rivals to the King James Throne | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...Faculty's revolving door turned several times this week. Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History and currently senior Soviet specialist on the National Security Council, informed University officials that he will not return here until the 1982-83 academic year at the earliest. Pipes, on leave since the beginning of the semester, will lose tenure if he remains absent for more than two consecutive years... Harry R. Lewis '68, associate professor of Computer Science, will become the second McKay Professor of Computer Science in July. A junior faculty member here for seven years. Lewis will become the second tenured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meanwhile . . . | 4/18/1981 | See Source »

...tenure offer emerges from the process, Skocpol said she will "seriously consider" it but could not return until the 1982-83 school year at the earliest. She must decide on outside tenure offers before the ad hoc committee meets...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Taking a Closer Look | 4/18/1981 | See Source »

...however, the domestic field had become too crowded to suit Trippe, so he abandoned air transportation within the U.S. and formed Pan American. The new company concentrated on international routes; its earliest Key West to Havana run carried just eight passengers in trimotor Fokkers. The airline quickly expanded its routes throughout Latin America and the Pacific. Charles A. Lindbergh, fresh from his solo flight across the Atlantic, soon became a key Pan Am adviser. "Lindbergh," Trippe always maintained, "was our greatest pilot and navigator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sky Rider | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

DAVID CRONENBERG'S $5-million opus, Scanners, now unreels. Cronenberg has long been one of the premier horror-film directors in the world. His earliest success--They Came From Within--updated George Romero's Night of the Living Dead by making the villains brown, turdshaped creatures who neatly slipped in any out of any available human orifice. In The Brood, his 1979 entry starring Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar. Cronenberg realized a brilliant and original idea. Doctor Reed develops a radical psychological treatment that enables his patients to manifest, physically, their traumas and neuroses. Eggar, his star warped patient, grows...

Author: By Scott J. Michaelsen, | Title: A Mutant | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

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