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Plodding through 311 versions of the Gospel According to St. Luke, he found 2,000 variations in only two chapters. In 15 verses he found 400 variations. The whole book probably contains more than 100,000 differences. It was obviously impossible, in one human lifetime, to make any sense by the usual methods out of all this confusion...
...Ellison went to Harvard's Computation Laboratory to find whether the Mark IV could straighten out St. Luke. The mathematicians who serve the great computer decided that the Biblical problem was "realistic" and told Mr. Ellison how; to translate parts of the Gospel into mathematical language that the Mark IV would understand...
...first two columns identify chapter and verse. The other code numbers describe the variations and tell where they occur. When such code numbers were properly packaged and fed into the Mark IV, it replied with figures telling which of the 311 versions of the Gospel are identical or similar...
...Harold Hand, 53, professor of education at the University of Illinois, debonair devotee of the theory that traditional subjects are less important than service to society. As a member of the influential Illinois curriculum program, Professor Hand has spread his gospel throughout his state, has helped arouse dozens of schools and communities to work more closely together. "There are," he says, "community needs that simply have to be met. But anything we ask a youngster to do has got to have a clear relationship to something he wants. So we need to have things that the community needs make sense...
...center's gospel, laid down by Founder De Lee, is absolute cleanliness in the midst of squalor. As a sanitary aid, the delivery crews pack two odd accessories: newspapers and empty beer bottles. With the bottles as stiffeners, newspapers are rolled into bolsters to shield the mother from outside germs. Explains the center's Co-Director Dr. Harry B. Benaron: "We don't say that newspapers are germfree, but they are certainly cleaner than the sheets we find in the average home...