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...Hall of Famer Lefty 29. Pollster's projection 30. Stutz Bearcat contemporary 31. Wen Ho Lee has been denied bail in the Los __ security breach 32. 1936 Peace Nobelist Carlos Saavedra __ 34. C.I.C. 36. Delta of Venus author 38. Diner orders, for short 39. "March Madness" org. 42. College sr.'s test 44. Extension on program files...
When Bob Jones Sr. founded his university in 1927, explicit anti-Catholicism was a staple of conservative American Protestantism. Americans alarmed at the influx of Irish and Italian immigrants took solace in Reformation descriptions of the Pope as the Whore of Babylon. Eventually most American Protestants left anti-Catholicism behind, and from the 1950s on, Billy Graham led many Evangelicals toward a greater tolerance. Jones, however, reviled Graham. (He later reviled even Jerry Falwell.) His fundamentalist separatism suspended B.J.U. in amber on topics from anti-Catholicism to its ban on interracial dating (which led to the revocation...
DIED. HARRY PRICHETT SR., 79, pioneering graphic artist who in 1954 created the first interactive-television show, Winky Dink and You; in New York City. The children's program, which asked viewers to draw objects on their TV screens with "magic crayons," returned in the '90s on video...
...Hampshire may have been the blow that widened it. Bush and Gore, riding high on the backs of their party apparatuses and their victories in Iowa, came into the Granite State exuding the confidence of heirs apparent. Bush flaunted his legacy and name recognition, sharing the stage with George Sr. and Barbara; Gore played up his vice presidential status with his Secret Service entourage...
This week in New Hampshire, U.S. activists plan to show up waving placards demanding that AL GORE take a stand. Why Gore? Because he helps control up to $500,000 worth of Oxy stock inherited from his father AL GORE SR., a longtime Occidental board member. Those shares could be worth a lot more if Oxy strikes it rich in Colombia; activists also note that Occidental's chairman, RAY IRANI, gave Democrats $100,000 shortly after he spent the night in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House. The executive director of the Sierra Club, among others, wrote the environmentally...