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...star performer, who launched the House investigation of TV: Congressman Ezekiel Gathings of West Memphis, Ark., who enlivened his testimony with an impromptu shimmy to demonstrate how a grass-skirted TV actress danced a hoochie-coochie. Said Statesman Gathings in breathless summary: "The rashest thing I ever viewed...
...search of literature, Dr. Menzel suggests, would turn up many flying saucers. There may even be some in the Bible: the "wheels" seen in the air by the Prophet Ezekiel.* Saucers have been seen more often of late, he thinks, because the U.S. Southwest, where atmospheric conditions are most favorable, has only recently been occupied by a large, alert population. The men who man its air bases, rocket ranges and laboratories are just the sort of observers that would notice flying saucers...
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Heresy Before Ezekiel. Jerome had other interests which took him away from his translations. He was a self-appointed guardian of the church's orthodoxy. From Bethlehem he thundered against the hairsplitting heresies of the time with the mordancy of a theological Leo Durocher. When Jerome's onetime friend Rufinus died, after a long theological quarrel with him, the saint wrote: "Now that the scorpion lies buried . . . and the hydra with its numerous heads has ceased its hissing against us, and time is given for other things than answering the iniquities of heretics . . . I will tackle the Prophet...
Marble & Mahogany. Cullen gave $1,000,000 to install a huge heating plant. He paved the campus walks and streets, rimmed them with electric light. He did everything from air conditioning the campus buildings to putting up the $5,000,000 Ezekiel W. Cullen Building (named after his grandfather), equipped with 94 offices, 46 classrooms, marble from Italy, mahogany from Honduras, lacewood from Australia. Finally, he turned over enough of his oil royalties to ensure the university an eventual income of $10 million...