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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Consistent with polydox belief, there was no mention at the St. Louis meeting of God (or, as Reines' writings would have it, "god"). Because many Jews no longer believe in a personal, benevolent deity who revealed himself to Moses, polydox liturgies use vague formulations, such as "the power of creation" or "the flow and force of life." In fact, the polydox hold "services," not "worship services," since they have no particular god to worship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jews with Nobody to Worship | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...days before the auction, the remains of a much more famous man of God, St. Francis, were reburied after a special rite at the basilica in Assisi, Italy. The skeleton was first identified by Vatican experts in 1818. When the remains were exhumed so the grave site could be repaired, Pope Paul asked scientists to study them. Their findings: the saint, who died in 1226, was short and frail and Ms bones "very porous, denoting a form of malnutrition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Skull and Bones | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...through balderdash to the next bit of good storytelling or good sense. Meanwhile, what about this name change? Why Morgan? Why not Carnegie or Rockefeller? Why not Svensen or Von Humboldt or Verrazanno or Sun Yatsen? Well, Morgan explains, he threw away his first name, Sanche-a contraction of St. Charles -and scrambled the letters of De Gramont. Among the anagrams that resulted were Dr. Montage, R.D. Megaton and Ted Morgan. Morgan, he felt, was someone you would lend your car to. Dogs and small children would like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Countless Blessings | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

Tournament fever! The spirit of St. Louis! A carload of Harvard undergraduates survived an extreme case of blue delirium this weekend in Providence, R.I., as Duke University dunked its way to the NCAA finals by defeating both Penn and Villanova...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg and Laura E. Schanberg, S | Title: The Spirit of St. Louis | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

What were some of the highlights of tournament fever? Well, there was Gene Banks, standing on the shoulders of fans, with scissors in one hand cutting down a net, and Murrah's trident in his other hand, waving menacingly in the direction of the NCAA finals in St. Louis next weekend...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg and Laura E. Schanberg, S | Title: The Spirit of St. Louis | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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