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Born near Trieste, diminutive (5 ft. 6 in., 135 Ibs.), Mario Andretti came to the U.S. in 1955 and settled in Nazareth, Pa. He originally intended to be a welder, gave up that idea when he discovered that he could make more money racing stock cars and midgets on the dirt tracks of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Today, Andretti is the hottest racing driver in the world...
Forced to rely more on imagination than on eyewitness accounts, artists of subsequent ages customarily pictured Jesus stretched on a crux sublimis, towering high above the earth, which the Romans reserved exclusively for illustrious victims. An obscure carpenter from Nazareth, contends Bréhant, would have rated nothing more than the low T-shaped cross, scarcely taller than a man, that was used for the execution of common criminals...
...Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, and that God is in the church to complete this work of reconciliation. The confession does not attempt to redefine such traditional doctrines as the Trinity, but it does give a contemporary statement of what the church believes about Jesus of Nazareth (in him, "true humanity was realized once for all"), Christ as savior and judge of all men, and God's sovereign love...
Swedish Actor Max von Sydow, who has appeared potent in the films of Ingmar Bergman, plays Christ vividly but all in one key. Though Von Sydow's brooding face can burn with El Greco agony, he seems little more than a cool, compassionate waxwork as he strides from Nazareth to Judea, recruiting disciples and saving souls with an unbroken flow of scriptural quotations...
...Palestine as a refugee in 1947. She joined a kibbutz, served in the Israeli army, raised her son and daughter as Jews, and though nonobservant, celebrates Judaism's major feasts in her house. Now she is a town councilor of Israel's Mapai (Labor) Party in Upper Nazareth...