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...description of the Holy Spirit appears in the Gospel of John, where Jesus is quoted as promising to send the disciples "the Paraclete"-a Greek word variously translated as "comforter," "advocate," or "counselor"-to remind them of Jesus' teaching and to guide them to truth. At Pentecost, the 50th day after the Resurrection, the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples in tongues of flame and set them all to speaking in other tongues so vociferously that Peter had to explain to the crowd in Jerusalem that they were not drunk, "seeing it is but the third hour...
...July 30 Wide World 60 (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). An assemblage of 55,000 Boy Scouts and Comedian Herb Shriner commemorate the 50th anniversary of U.S. scouting at a Colorado Springs jamboree...
...grateful celebration" of their 50th wedding anniversary, New York's Democratic ex-Governor and Senator, Herbert H. Lehman, 82, and his wife Edith gave a $500,000 present to the children of New York City. The money was accepted by the city for construction of a children's zoo that Lehman envisions in Central Park, just across the street from the Leh-mans' longtime place of worship, Temple Emanu...
...favorite weather prognosticators, a double bass player named Carlos Raviola, known to Minnie as "Mr. Spaghetti," would at any moment begin "smelling rain." Minnie concluded that she had about had it. She would give up the whole business, she told a visitor, the day after the stadium celebrated its 50th anniversary...
...manually spelled out the word "water" upon the palm of blind, deaf Helen Keller. Last week Miss Keller, almost 80, went to Radcliffe College for the in formal dedication of the Anne Sullivan Memorial Fountain, which flows in the Helen Keller Garden that was presented to her at the 50th reunion of her class ('04). Before feeling the water, Miss Kel ler smiled mistily, read a Braille inscrip tion at the back of the fountain: "In memory of Anne Sullivan, teacher extraordinary, who beginning with the word, water, opened to the girl Helen Keller the world of sight...