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...forehead, "the brow of a philosopher," and a huge grizzled mustache. With the vitality of a dog grinding a juicy bone, Rosenberg goes on to extract from the 60 Sherlock Holmes stories strong influences from Oscar Wilde, Catullus, Robert Browning, Racine, Poe, Mary Shelley, George Sand and even Jesus Christ...
Thus it is interesting that part of the force now pushing Richard Nixon against the wall is the voice of a religion that he so assiduously cultivated over the years. The remarkable conversion to Christ of Charles Colson is considered a cloud of unknown proportions over Nixon's presidency. After weeks of inner anguish and a night of prayer, Colson confessed to a Watergate crime with which he had not even been charged. According to his spiritual mentor, Senator Harold Hughes, he will now tell all the truth he knows...
...Biscayne, has not been as forbearing as the more famous ministers. He pointed out that the transcripts were the President's own account of what happened, not the Washington Post's, and he called on Nixon to "repent publicly and accept the forgiveness of Jesus Christ...
...have lived, well, they can make it if they try," she declared. There were those in the audience who thought she was perhaps referring to Sly's former reputation for failing to fulfill engagements. Then she introduced Family Friend Bishop B.R. Stewart of the Church of God in Christ, who had replaced, at her insistence, the Rev. Ike. Explained a Sly aide: "The only denomination Ike knows anything about...
...gear with God-you'll pull no loads in neutral." Drivers who have heeded Keys' message range from those who have given up alcohol, drugs or reading pornographic paperbacks to those who seem to find Jesus a substitute for NoDoz-and sometimes a tranquilizer. "I know Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of my Life," wrote one California trucker, "and I can truthfully say that he takes the hazards and nervous tension out of driving...