Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showdown between Theological Hard-Liner Jacob A.O. Preus, president of the 2,900,000-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and more liberal Lutherans in the denomination has long been expected to occur at the national synod convention in New Orleans this July. Since he was elected president in 1969, Preus has been fighting the "historical-critical" approach to the Bible that casts doubt, he says, on the literal accuracy of such biblical tales as Adam and Eve and Jonah and the Whale. Less literal Lutherans have hoped to defeat Preus by nominating a popular moderate candidate, Oswald C.J. Hoffmann...
...freshman sailors are a contender in their own right. They came in second in the Greater Boston Freshman Championships, led by Terry Neff, Chris Hornig and Jacob Kohlhass. Last Sunday, Neff and Hornig qualified for the New England Single-Handed Championship along with varsity sailors Brownlee and Wood...
Flying in from her home in Hawaii, Clare Boothe Luce caught a Philadelphia performance of the Broadway-bound revival of her 1936 hit The Women. Later in Manhattan, dozens of old and new friends, including Senator and Mrs. Jacob Javits, Mrs. William F. Buckley Jr., Author David Halberstam, Director Joshua Logan and his wife, gathered at "21" to celebrate Mrs. Luce's 70th birthday. The party was given by her stepson Henry Luce III and New York City Parks Commissioner Richard Clurman and his wife. Actress Ilka Chase toasted Mrs. Luce for providing "the best 18 months...
...Jacob Javits (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that, under this proposal, "cities are left with the Hobson's choice of firing the father in order to hire...
...like mad meteorites and the lights cut off in a final blackout. Jackpot was gimmicky, erotic and decidedly brash. It was also, every minute of it, thoroughly charming. The humor that Arpino found in an electronic score called Synapse may or may not have been intended by Composer Jacob Druckman, but if he is wise, Druckman will claim...