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...indicates that only 66 people, apart from Joseph and his two sons, went to Egypt. If Menashes' son went too, the total was 70. They stayed in Egypt only three generations, despite Exodus 12:40, which puts their stay at 430 years. Ben-Gurion's reasoning: Levi was known to have had three sons who went to Egypt with Joseph-Gershon, Merari and Kohath (Numbers 3:17); Kohath in turn had four sons-Izehar, Hebron, Uzziel and Amram (Numbers 3:19}. Amram had two sons-Aaron and Moses (Exodus 6:20). Thus there were three generations between...
President Patty may feel that beards, Levi's and mukluks are out of place here, but here are a few of the unquashed beard wearers on campus. Civilization, with its group conformity, has not taken over this campus yet, and we are neither shaving nor going to Point Barrow...
...Junior prom-such as pink and blue balloons, some personally blown up by the wives, which further confused the week-end-on-Venus decor of Hollywood's Moulin Rouge. Costume dress was optional, but most of the folks came in their work clothes-Gary Cooper in Stetson and Levi's, Barbara Rush in a remake of one of Mae West's old negligees...
...winter's "cabin fever" by placidly staring at TV's Maverick. If students still use car trunks as deep-freezers for fresh game, they seldom skin moose in the dormitories and hang the carcasses outside the windows. President Patty has even clamped down on beards, mukluks and Levi's; slacks and jackets are now fashionable. To those who protest, Patty snaps: "Fellow, civilization has caught up with you. I advise you to go on to Point Barrow...
From that time on, in his pilgrimage to discover the truth about North and South, Allan meets all the top people. There is "the notorious Levi Coffin of Cincinnati," founder of the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves; Allan is armed with a hunting knife for killing abolitionists, but is charmed into nonaggression by the old Quaker's "thees" and "thous." Later, Allan searches out John Brown at Harpers Ferry, "to pour out his soul." Before long, he knows that "he was dealing with a lunatic or a martyr." Allan can do nothing, either, with Jefferson Davis, except stare into...