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...been converted. If you judge him from the point of view of a pure abolitionist, Douglass said, "Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent." But, he went on, "measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined...
DIED. James H. ("Sleepy Jim") Crowley, 83, last of the great "Four Horsemen" backfield that led Notre Dame to a 19-1 record in the 1923-24 seasons; in Scranton, Pa. The small (160 lbs.), swift Crowley was immortalized with his teammates by Sportswriter Grantland Rice: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden...
...flight--a second and a half before the explosion--the orbiter yawed suddenly to the right. As the righthand rocket booster broke loose, spewing superhot gases from a faulty joint, the shuttle's engines tried to compensate for the loss of pressure, and the crew must have felt swift side-to-side lurches...
...that is prologue. The moment is here, as swift a job of casting and production as Reagan can recall. On the phone, his familiar voice sounds like that of an American heartlander who was somehow picked out to star in this drama, feeling his way but absolutely undaunted...
...Herbert W. Armstrong and his Worldwide Church of God, although Armstrong had no connection with the Identity movement. The Identity churches stem more directly from the preaching before and after World War II of Gerald L.K. Smith, a notorious anti-Semite. It was Smith's West Coast operative, Wesley Swift, who founded the church that Butler now leads. Later a Swift offshoot in Mariposa, Calif., led by retired Army Colonel William Potter Gale, produced the newsletter Identity and solidified the ideology...