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Hoover's master plan--in his own words--was to "prevent the rise of the messiah who could unify and electrify the militant black nationalist group. Martin Luther King...aspires to this position...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Skeletons From the Closet | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...Ephmen went 7-0-1 in 1967, he was voted New England College Coach of the Year. Having returned to Columbia in 1968, Navarro's career reached its zenith in 1971 when the Lions went 6-3, only the third winning Columbia season since 1952. Navarro emerged as the messiah of Morningside Heights that year as the Lions won every one of their home games with Homeric heroics in the last seconds...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Navarro's Back in the Ivies Again | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...recalls, "not the power of God, but all the traditions and dogmas." Deterred from a religious vocation, Isaac followed his equally radical brother Israel Joshua to the journals of Warsaw. In his spare time, the young reporter wrote a handful of stories and a dark novel about a false messiah, Satan in Goray, that prefigured his later works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nobel Prize for I.B. Singer | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

MacMurray has no grand illusions about his answer to the punting question. He knows he is not a cannon-legged messiah here to save the Crimson charges and nail the coffin corner shut on grid-iron foes. He simply believes he can kick a football and little by little he has been erasing the question mark that shrouded the Harvard punting game in the preseason forecasts...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Trying to Get the Hang (Time) of It | 10/13/1978 | See Source »

...moderate depression. Others use it to break down patients' defenses in talk therapy, and a few believe running produces chemical changes that help cure serious disorders. Jogging literature now features overblown claims for the method. Runner's World magazine says that Kostrubala may be "a therapeutic messiah who will lead the mentally disturbed out of the desert." Writer Valerie Andrews, in her forthcoming book, The Psychic Power of Running, argues that weekend jogging clinics "could well be the basis for the nation's first grass-roots movement in community mental health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Jogging for the Mind | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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