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...practical businessman, Mohammed believed in success. He thought that he was defending the Christians against the Jews when he asserted that the Christians invented the story of the Crucifixion, which he regarded as a shameful end for a great prophet. Christ, he said, actually slipped away to heaven and another man was crucified in his place...
...City of Jerusalem, toward noon one day last week, a white-robed old man with piercing eyes and a soldierly bearing walked across the compound of the Mosque of the Rock, believed by the faithful to enclose the rock from which the Prophet Mohamed rode to heaven on a white steed. King Abdullah of Jordan, who traces his descent from the Prophet himself, was making his weekly visit to the shrine to honor the Prophet and the memory of his own father, Hussein, onetime Sherif of Mecca (Custodian of the Holy Places) and King of the Hejaz, whose bones...
...yearbook prophet had a little advance information: Electrical Engineer Dumas was already signed up to work for A. T. & T.'s Southern Bell. Starting as a $50-a-month trainee, Dumas rose through the traffic department, claims to know "personally 90% of the 54,000 people who work for Southern Bell." One of those he met was Cleo Craig, for three years A. T. & T.'s long-lines boss in Atlanta...
Everyone thought that Sarnoff was foolishly optimistic when he predicted that $75 million in boxes would be sold within three years. Actual sales: $83 million. David Sarnoff, a prophet with honor, was soon radio's wonder boy, teeming with ideas. Why not, he proposed, put radios and phonographs in a single cabinet, save space, cut costs by using the same loudspeakers? Sales of such combinations soared. Why not start a radio network to improve programs, broaden the market for sets? At Sarnoff's urging, RCA founded NBC and the Red network. Two months later, the Blue network...
...According to the Bible, an angry prophet of Shiloh, who foretold the division of the kingdom of Israel...