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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In any case, storytellers have been embroidering on the Nativity texts for nearly 20 centuries. Sometimes it is to make the Holy Family more believable, often it is to make events even more miraculous. Many of the inventions of art and literature are so ingrained that people regard them as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: That's Showbiz? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The most famous Nativity anecdotes were gathered together in the 13th century by Jacobus de Voragine in The Golden Legend, a compilation of saint stories that became a medieval bestseller. Among other things, Father Jacobus reports that the water of a Roman spring turned to oil on the day Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: That's Showbiz? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The search that produced such startling "results began routinely enough when investigators of the New Mexico Organized Crime Strike Force, a special state investigative unit, started looking into underworld activities. The allegations that developed were both dismaying and frightening. They involved a college basketball scandal, which was bad enough, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Trouble | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Although he had a security clearance, Shinkle did not have access, Sandia insists, to the company's two main computers, which contain the classified material. The one that Shinkle is said to have used, says Sandia, had only unclassified material. Still, FBI agents and officials at the Department of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Trouble | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Florey was not appeased. He took his case to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, where it is awaiting judgment. But on the way to St. Louis the suit acquired a major new supporter. The American Civil Liberties Union, national Jewish organizations and the Unitarian Universalists were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Caroling Crisis | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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