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...Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson, 53, devoutly believes, and when medics told her that she would be able to resume her career despite the heart attack she suffered five months ago, "I went to a Catholic Mass and prayed," she said, in her Chicago home. "I'm a Baptist, but I believe there's only one God." One thing taken away for good, however, with the aid of a diet, are 50 of Mahalia's original 250 Ibs. "Doctors say I have to lose at least 25 more Ibs.," she laughs...
...roused his audience with a declamation about control of nuclear weapons. "Any man," cried Lyndon, "who shares control of such enormous power must remember that 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.' " Hunger. As the campaign progressed, Johnson took to carrying around a sheaf of reports from pollsters; he pulled them out and leafed through them at the slightest provocation. His walks on the White House grounds, with reporters chasing in full tilt, took on the aspect of a circus...
...stand on nuclear weapons control by quoting the Bible (Proverbs 16:32). "Any man who shares control of such enormous power," said Lyndon, "must remember that 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.' " Later in the week in Harrisburg, he delivered a harsh attack on extremists, who, he claimed, "demand that you choose a doctrine alien to America-a doctrine that would lead to a tragic convulsion in our foreign relations-a doctrine that flouts the unity of our society...
...father rebuked her in his own didactic paraphrases, saying: "If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly." He refused her a piano ("Wine and music will rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both") and kept her from the village fair ("Who so taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condemned...
Arno's people, on the other hand, have generally created their own situation: The man sitting at a bar with a beautiful girl telling the bartender to, "Fill 'er up," or the two clerics watching a parish bazaar and saying. "Ah, well, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away...