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...first Holy Year took place in 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII decreed a year known as the "Jubilee," after the Old Testament practice in which debts were forgiven every 50th year. In this case, however, the pardon was from penalties incurred through sin. In Catholic belief, the sinner was freed from eternal punishment (hell) through the sacrament of Penance. But temporal punishment (on earth or in purgatory) remained, and it could be removed in full by an indulgence granted to Holy Year pilgrims by the Pope, who controlled an "inexhaustible" treasury of the merits of Christ, Mary and the saints...
...have news that he had done so announced publicly-by special agreement with the prosecutors and U.S. District Judge George L. Hart. It was Hart who gave approval for the two grand jurors and the prosecutors to fly to California to interrogate Nixon. Because of President Ford's pardon of him on Sept. 8, 1974, Nixon cannot be prosecuted for any crimes he may have committed as President. But he can be charged with perjury if any of his statements to the grand jury last week were false...
Ford's new presence has been built on many things-his big smile, his astonishing honesty and openness, the realization by many that his pardon of Nixon may have been more right than wrong (because it helped refocus the nation's attention on other problems), his program on the economy, which has forced the hostile Congress to move, his energy program, and his quick and successful response to the Mayaguez hijacking. Whether he has been right or wrong in his decisions...
...Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension course. If his Polish-born father had not needed a job badly enough to leave New York during the Depression and sign on with the Moscow Automotive Works, Alex at 22 might have been singing a phrase from one of his favorite songs, Pardon Me, Boy, Is That the Chattanooga Choo-Choo? in Rockefeller Center rather than while strolling along Gorky Street...
...elevator with Truman and a bunch of men. He used a swear word. "When we got to the lobby," recalled Mrs. Short, "he saw that I was on the elevator. He came over not only to speak to me but to say, 'I beg your pardon, Beth. I didn't realize you were on the elevator or I never would have said that word.' " The word was damn...