Word: error
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Without error Christianity Today (circ. 142,000) was founded in 1956 by Billy Graham and friends in order to provide much-needed intellectual guidance for Evangelical Protestants. The magazine's urbane image suffered this year when it moved from downtown Washington, D.C., to Carol Stream, Ill., in part to be closer to the conservative Protestant heartland. Nonetheless, it has just chosen a new editor, Kenneth S. Kantzer, who comes equipped with a Harvard Ph.D. Says he: "Great ideas don't have to be incomprehensible...
Kantzer, 60, an Evangelical Free Church clergyman, has led Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois as it has grown from 35 to 450 full-time students. He staunchly defends the idea that the Bible is wholly without error. Thi tenet is included in a creed that the magazine's board adopted last year, and retiring Editor Harold Lindsell has written a controversial book (TIME, May 10, 1976) assailing Evangelicals with less rigorous views...
Ochs' chosen instrument in his quest for excellence was Carr Van Anda, the icily intellectual managing editor who once spotted a mathematical error in an Albert Einstein lecture that the Times was about to print. Einstein gratefully acknowledged the mistake. Van Anda also had an eye for circulation-building stunts, such as the Times's sponsorship of polar expeditions by Commodore Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen...
...have seen studies on highway deaths," says Jacques Couture, an athletic, bearded Quebecois of 37, who presides at the Jim Russell International Racing Drivers School, near Mont Tremblant. "Speed is only the No. 3 factor. Equipment failure is second. According to these studies, the deadliest killer is driver error...
Conservative Republicans were outraged. Snapped G.O.P. National Chairman William Brock: "A tragic error." Declared California Congressman Robert Dornan: "They're breaking out the vodka and caviar in Moscow." Republican House Leader John Rhodes of Arizona accused Carter of giving the House "a rather gratuitous slap in the face" by not announcing his decision prior to its vote on the B-1 funds. Only 48 hours before Carter dropped his bombshell, the House had beaten back, by a vote of 243 to 178, an amendment to delete from the defense budget $1.5 billion for production of five...