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...Last year Criswell, pastor of the 15,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas, inadvertently brought these trends to a head by publishing a book titled Why I Preach That the Bible Is Literally True. The book enraged the Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, and in the ensuing furor Southern Baptists divided over whether to embrace or reject Criswell's credo...
...furor over Harvard's I.R.A. boycott is fairly recent, actually. As late as 1965, when Harvard's dominance was unquestionable, Sports Illustrated considered the Syracuse regatta little more than a runner-up event, and that year, after Navy had upset the field there, the magazine ran a banner headline over its story that read-CHAMPIONSHIPS MINUS THE CHAMP. The cover showed a montage of coach Harry Parker and "The World's Best Crew," and inside. Whall was saying, "When Harvard shows up competition seems to vanish." Later than a month later, however, the Vesper Boat Club defeated the Crimson...
MOST biologists here are not very worried about B and G's herbicide program: the questionable chemicals are used in very small quantities and the evidence of direct danger to humans is inconclusive. The current furor over herbicides focuses on the massive acrial sprayings in Vietnam, where huge doeses of herbicides sometimes drift into drinking water supplies...
Predictably, Nixon's statement caused a furor. It was in no way diminished when Spiro Agnew followed up on a CBS interview with an accusation that the Senate had allowed itself to be taken in by "the worst snow job of any legislative body in history." More than two dozen Senators signed a letter charging that the President had "completely mistaken" the Senate's action and pledging that they would support a Southerner of Nixon's philosophical persuasion if he met "the high legal, judicial and ethical standards which we believe are required." Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore introduced a resolution...
Last week a carefully argued memo, written by Moynihan and intended for the President only, was leaked to the press - and created a furor. Countering the present pessimism about civil rights, Moynihan told Nixon that Negroes, in fact, made "extraordinary progress" during the 1960s. The family income of blacks considerably increased; the number of Negroes in professional and technical jobs doubled. Moynihan allowed that bitter hostility toward whites was widespread among young blacks and that the Nixon Administration had done little to reassure the Negro community. Nevertheless, he wondered if it was not time for "a period of 'benign...