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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ministers of God, especially at crucial moments when things had to be done that defied human logic-opening the Red Sea, for example, so that the children of Israel could pass. But no scriptural source deals adequately with such practical matters as what angels wore, what they really looked like, what sex, if any, they possessed. Man was left to imagine these details according to need and fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Visions and Visitations | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...treats us all the same-like dogs. -Green Bay Tackle Henry Jordan, describing Coach Vince Lombardi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whipping Up the Redskins | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...good now, and Jurgensen will be 36 next August. Still, N.F.L. coaches have noted that Washington's won-lost record is almost the same as the 7-5 compiled by Green Bay in 1959-the year Lombardi took over as head coach. Says Dallas Coach Tom Landry: "Like everyone else, Vince will have to build his team up with the draft. Only in his case, he makes things happen quicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whipping Up the Redskins | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Once aboard, Darwin proved immensely industrious. He climbed volcanoes and was shaken by earthquakes. He brooded upon such things as the social organization of army ants. He learned that the Fuegians ate their women in a hard winter (instead of their dogs, which could catch otter). Like a great artist, he was half child, half sage. Nothing, from tiny bugs to the giant fossilized Megatherium, was too small or great to stir his delight. He saw not only the kinship of beasts with man but the kinship of man with the beasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How the Beagle Sank the Ark | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Splendor and Doubf. Doubt dawned slowly upon the incipient country parson. "At last gleams of light have come," he wrote, "and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How the Beagle Sank the Ark | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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