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Afterwards, there was Isaiah and his winged eagles, a "God bless you," and McGovern was gone. Shriver had been watching ruefully in Maryland. He would be running his hand through his hair everytime the camera switched to him. His upper lip was stiff. I could not help but have a sense of him "going through all this for the family," the Kennedy family. I was passed at Ted Kennedy; if he had joined McGovern they would have won. Now there was only NIXON. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES...
...physicist of several decades back," Applied Optics points out that the temperature of heaven (considered by the ancients to be the entire firmament, including sun, moon and stars) can be accurately computed from data available in the Bible. The data can be found in an Old Testament passage from Isaiah 30:26 that defines the total light radiated heavenward by the sun and the moon in terms of the portion of that light that hits the earth: "Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold...
When he talks of future artistic empires, Papp sometimes sounds like Jay Gould, the robber baron, sometimes like Serge Diaghilev, the great impresario of ballet. When he discusses TV, however, he sounds more like the prophet Isaiah, with a vision of glory in his eye. "Eventually," he says, talking about his specials, "it will be essential to do 50 a year, 50 a month. Just by the sheer doing of it-and having it come directly out of live theater-we'll be setting up a whole cultural movement...
...president of the New York City board of education last week suggested a novel teacher's aid: astrology. At an educational forum, Isaiah E. Robinson said that "if astrology is correct," some classroom problems of misbehavior may be caused by pupils whose birth signs conflict with those of other children, or possibly their teachers'. It may be, Robinson suggested, that teachers should take the planets into consideration to understand the kids better. Presumably, a Taurian heaving erasers at an Aquarian may have his cosmic reasons...
...guards, some millenarians chart the signs of the Apocalypse with the aid of handbooks like The Late Great Planet Earth. They see smog and pollution prophesied in Isaiah; the taking of Old Jerusalem by the Jews, and the admission of ten nations into the Common Market are signs that the end is near...