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When the football players at Brigham Young University, a big Mormon school in Provo, Utah, huddle before the game, they do not pray for victory. "We just pray," says a player wryly, "that we'll come out in one piece." For 21 seasons, the toothless Cougars were the pussycats of the Skyline Conference, winning only 69 of 203 games against such middling opposition as Wyoming, Montana, Utah State. B.Y.U. now belongs to the new Western Athletic Conference, and with only three victories in nine games, it is still the weakling of its league. But this season, the Cougars have...
...secularism. Wyschogrod sees theological merit in nondenominational worship in public schools in the manner of the New York Regents prayer outlawed by a Supreme Court decision last June. "One of the leading Torah authorities is said to have remarked that the prayer in question fulfills the Biblical obligation to pray," he points out. More materially, Wyschogrod also thinks that Orthodox Jews might well take another look at their attitude to the question of federal aid to religious schools. Reform Jews almost unanimously oppose such aid; but most of the U.S. yeshivot (day schools) are conducted by Orthodox congregations that...
...Pennsylvania Democrat Dilworth feels that the capable, competent Republican Scranton is seeking on-the-job training, pray tell what are his feelings about Democratic Johnny-come-lately Teddy Kennedy...
...befits a Baptist minister, Martin Luther King has often taken as his text the words from the Sermon on the Mount: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." But in the minds of Dr. King and the Southern Negro these words have become more than ethical commands; they are the core of a philosophy of nonviolent protest which has enabled the Negro to fight for dignity and the rights of first-class citizenship with a creative power and grace...
...point Senate Whip Hubert Humphrey definitely predicted a midweek adjournment. But Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield knew better. Asked about Humphrey's forecast, he simply sighed: "What week?" A newsman suggested to Mansfield that in Election Year 1962. a lot of members of Congress were by now praying for adjournment. Retorted Mansfield: "If I pray any more, I'm going to have housemaid's knee...