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...Dodd Day festivities in Connecticut, then Vice President Lyndon Johnson was to be the star attrac tion. Former Dodd Aide James Boyd, one of the four ex-staffers who ran sacked the Senator's records and fed copies to Columnist Pearson, testified that a Johnson aide named Ivan Sinclair had demanded a letter stating the purposes of Dodd Day. Boyd wrote the letter, he said, but does not remember if he sent it. Earlier this month, Sinclair signed an affidavit for the Stennis committee; its last sentence said that the "purpose of Dodd Day was to raise funds...
Treasury of Merits. Luther's faith-centered theology ran strongly counter to the religious practice of 16th century Catholicism, which overemphasized the belief that man could earn his salva tion, and the remission of temporal punishment for sin, by good works. Central to this thinking was the church's system of indulgences. In exchange for a meritorious work-frequently, contributing to a worthy cause or making a pilgrimage to a shrine-the church would dispense a sinner from his temporal punishment through its "treasury of merits." This consisted of the grace accumulated by Christ's sacrifice...
...command pilot qualified to fly 27 types of aircraft, Posvar flew four-engine C-54 transports in the Berlin airlift before taking up his teaching duties at Colorado Springs in 1957. Then 32, he was the youngest full professor ever to serve at one of the na tion's service academies. Insisting that "anything can stand the fresh air of discussion" in a military classroom, Posvar encouraged original thinking by cadets. He became head of the academy's social sciences division...
...standard, drilling holes in a man's skull, sawing a trap door out of it, or sewing up the parchmentlike covering of his brain is a drastic opera tion. But does it constitute practicing medicine? This was the question that confronted a Justice Court jury in Redding, Calif., last week as Roger Whittaker, 26, went on trial, charged with the practice of medicine without a license. At the same time, Neurosurgeon George C. Stevenson was charged with having aided and abetted Whittaker by letting him do these things...
...taught in philosophy class, bothered still more by his inability to accept natural law-the concept that there are certain God-given laws of behavior known to man by reason alone rather than revela tion. By the end of his sophomore year, Pike had decided that he could not be a priest, and transferred first to U.C.L.A. and then to the University of Southern California to enter law school...