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...Skwentna (pop. 12). In his wooded retreat, Birnbaum, a city-bred New Jerseyite, was reading by kerosene lamp when "suddenly the entire cabin began shaking. I grabbed the .30-30 Winchester that I had brought along, unlatched the door and peered out. A huge black bear was standing there upright-he must have been six feet tall and weighed 500 lbs.-pounding on the overhang with his front paws. I banged on a pot to scare him away. Nothing doing...
...most recent decision on jury selection two months ago, the Supreme Court upheld a Georgia statute that empowers jury commissioners to choose veniremen from "intelligent and upright citizens of the county." The phrase can be variously interpreted. Of 2,152 names on the voting list in Taliaferro County, 178 were excluded on this basis-171 of them blacks. The county is 60% black; the grand jury was 25% black. Yet the court found the statute's standards acceptable, demanding only that they be applied objectively and without discrimination...
...most eloquent passages in the Old Testament relates God's thunderous answer to the complaints of Job, who felt that as a morally upright man he had been unjustly afflicted with suffering and humiliation. Today, except for a few near-perfect lines, the King James Version of this passage (Job, 38-41) seems ponderous, and much of it obscure as well. Not only does the New English Bible give both an awesome grandeur and a biting sarcasm to God's words, but it also corrects for the first time several phrases long misrendered from the original Hebrew...
...logic isn't much help in understanding a screech owl. For one thing, how do you know what the bird is thinking when, say, he shreds a piece of spinach into 55 fragments before leaving it? Or why he reacts with evident horror to the sight of an upright moving stick? Or why, though something of a gourmet, Owl once consumed a lucky rabbit's foot down to the metal clip? "Since I can't get a reasonable answer, I suggest he doesn't know why himself," observes Service, adding judiciously: "Perhaps he is losing...
...city area is black. To meet the needs of the new congregation, Father Joseph Putnam, 40, its white pastor, employs more than one kind of tradition. The freewheeling Sunday services, though Catholic in ritual, are heavily Black Baptist in flavor. Music Director Alexander Rankins, a Negro, pounds an old upright piano, leading the al-tarside choir in standard Negro spirituals and other numbers from three books on the piano: The Catholic Mass, The Baptist Standard Hymnal and Gospel Pearls. Father Putnam talks about the meaning of humility?"A humble man must be strong. Jesus taught us that" ?and recommends...