Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dingy Baptist church near the Kremlin, one of the few churches still open in Moscow, was jammed with some 1,500 Russians, most of them of the same generation as the big, intense man who stood in the pulpit. The preacher: touring Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a high apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. With an interpreter at his side, Mormon Benson spoke with great emotion, poured out his thoughts with eloquent simplicity. Said he: "Be not afraid. Keep his Commandments. Love one another. Love all mankind. Strive for peace, and all will...
...near midnight in the sleeping Bavarian city of Bamberg (pop. 76,800) when some oddball, armed with a bucket of white oil paint and bursting with perverse zeal, got to working on a great carved door of Bamberg's 700-year-old cathedral. In the morning, there for all Bambergers to see, stood a legend in German, sloshed in letters a foot and a half high: "Elvis Presley-My God." Dreamboat Groaner Presley was on U.S. Army duty some 100 miles from the scene of his deification...
...ordinary. On the average, say the Journal's promotion men, he earns $22,648 a year-an income that should insulate him from their come-on ads: "I Was Tired of 'Living on Peanuts' So I Started Reading the Wall Street Journal." He does not reside near Wall Street; the Journal has more readers in California than New York, and its subscribers live in virtually all of the 3,044 counties in the continental U.S. The chances are good that he owns stock sold in at least one of the 14 markets whose activities the Journal logs...
...from 32,000 to 625,000, ranking the Journal among the top ten U.S. dailies. The country's only real contender for the title of national daily, the Journal is printed simultaneously in New York, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and Dallas; beginning next year it will be printed near Springfield, Mass., and in Cleveland as well. Its 286 fulltime editorial staffers are scattered through 20 U.S. news bureaus, three in Canada and eight overseas...
...ends in the electric chair, another in the governor's mansion. Why? For more than three decades, the mystery has been probed by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck, Harvard Law School's famed husband-and-wife criminologist team. The Glueck (rhymes with look) team has published three near classics on the subject: 500 Criminal Careers, One Thousand Juvenile Delinquents, Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. Last week the Gluecks published their latest study: Predicting Delinquency and Crime (Harvard University; $6.50). Its startling premise: criminal behavior can be forecast almost as accurately as an insurance company figures the odds on accident and death...