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Show rijn T W n m irinnyt -,- i,, v,, pm WTilifffny--iwyngrt- . fvf rr i. t W( i v,-- Ut'kKtl NtWb, y 0' p hKlDAY, AFKIL Quite literally, it was week that changed world The true and unfamiliar m story FIRT three hundred pence, and gnen to the A 'I ... EATER .; t a, is the first of an series based on Paul L. Maiers book, "Kir-- t Easter The True and Unfamiliar Story. t By Paul L, Maier Carrying palm fronds, the symbol of triumph. Palm Sunday procession enters Jerusalem. Were the disciples dolts? Not unless mankind itself is doltish. And after the overpowering experience of the first Easter, something transformed these men into brilliant and courageous apostles of the new faith. Whatever they may have thought of Jesus announced Passover plans, there was no thought of opposing them once the Teacher had set His face to go to Jerusalem. Their journey south took them via the Jordan Valley to sunny Jericho. The final leg of their journey was a dusty trek that twisted its way upward through barren hills and ravines in the. Judean badlands surrounding the Holy City. Jesus and the disciples were aiming for one of the eastern suburbs of Jerusalem, a town called Bethany. Finding accommodations in the Holy City would have been next to impossible. Jerusa-- . lem, which normally had a population of some 50,000 was at least tripling in size because of the vast influx of pilgrims celebrating the Passover. Then, too, Jesus, who was popular with the crowds, was quite vulnerable apart from them, and His aversaries might have come by night to arrest Him earlier than they did had they been able to locate His place of residence inside Jerusalem. The Teacher also had friends living in Bethany, very intimate friends. The sisters Mary and Martha, along with their brother Lazarus, according to the Fourth Gospel, raising him from the dead after four days entombment. While news of Jesus approach was going from mouth to mouth in Jerusalem. He Himself spent one of His last happy nights in Bethany at a dinner party given by His friends. The scene of Mary annointing the feet of Jesus after supper and wiping them with her hair is familiar enough, particularly because of Judas Iscariots grumbling reaction:-Whwas not this ointment sold for. 8.371 29 divided by 2.91 74 Tap tap, tap By Peter Tonge The Christian Science Monitor News Service ., . . whirr ... MY taps on the keys and the answer glowed red on the pocket calculator: tie manufacturer would have to sell five tons of gum to cover the cost of his TV commercial. A few who figThe accountant ured this out, a physics major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had just reelecceived a the tronic U.S. the taken which has type by storm in the past 18 months. He was using it to week, unit. compute every mathematical problem that popped into his head including the cost of television commercials. n business-programme- Boston civil engineer's exalso confirms this perience capacity. Formerlhe would visit the site of, say, a proposed bridge, take time-savin- y the needed readings, and then return home to a long evening of calculating. Now he takes along his and makes the needed computations on site. ll. uuid for itself m, just one d - try dividing It is a straight- all. A mid-197- The better models, which can be programmed for either business or scientific use. can mathematical handle any problem, boast a floating decimemomal, and have built-iOne ry capacity. has machine memorized the calendar for 20H Jan. 1, 19(11), years through Dec. 31. 2099. As an example, forward b u t Whoever calculation. thought up the term long division described it accurately. It took me longer than five minutes to do it. But the owner of one of the calculators read off the glowing answer in just seconds: 2.87 or, to be more accurate, 2.869435113 Little wonder a builder says he now car. calculate the number of board feet of lumber he requires for a job in no time-a- They have all proved so effective, apparently, that sales have spiralled above and beyond anything the industry would have predicted when the machines first came onto Few the market in sales outlets do not hav e back orders to fIl at present. Eighteen months ago models now selling for around $100 were up in the $300 range. Sales volume has cut production costs, say manufacturers. Predictions some six months ago that sales would hit 1.5 million this year now are considered overly conservative. Anvwhere from two to four $395 His is one of the most versatile and more expensive machines. They start as low' as $65 for those with simple addition, subtraction, multiplication. and division capacity. the calculator, However, which weighs just nine ounces and fits comfortably into the palm of the hand, is no mere plaything for this student. It is a serious tool which will buy him many hours of time in his pursuit of a PhD. It computes m seconds what would otherwise take minutes work of slide-rul- e 8.37129 by 2.9174. he says of his million, says a spokesman for Bowmar Electronics, the U.S. manufacturer. You can slip the tiny calculator into a coat pocket just as easily as you can a notebook or carry it in a belt holster. This is a major factor in major its popularity. Its capacity means it becomes a very personal thing. Equally important, though, is the machines practicality. We live in a number-orientesociety. Everyone uses figures to some degree every day. The verv use of money sees to that (C) Christian Science Publishing Society d t tight-lippe- li- spying-sabotag- Dean and Magruder. But it will take Liddy s testimony to make the ca.e stick. The Cowboy, as his friends call him, isnt talking He took an additional sentence for contempt rather than answer questions before a grand jury Whde House aides, meanwhile, are spreading the story that Liddy is mentally unbalanced and promoted the whole Watergate adventure himself. This kind of talk could backfire and bring Liddy out of his jail cell with an angry rebuttal. We have carefully investigated the possibility, however, that Liddy may have recruited the Mission: Impossible team and ordered the Watergate hrak-istrictly on, his own to satisfy ell. ' n i You need a lawyer Dont grab a pen and do it yourself advises our friendsource. There are complicated laws governing wills, property and taxes in any state in which a person lives. A lay man doesnt fully understand all o f the possible options or legal consequences. But, the fact that you shouldnt do it, doesnt mean you cant. So long as a homemade will meets the legal requirements of the state in which it ia filed including signatures from the correct number of witnesses the courts will usually uphold it. But there is more to your estate than a will. To provide most efficiently far your heirs, you need the assistance of a lawyer. The coot, which you say you really one that you can and should. cant afford, is Editor's Note We re sorry the volume of calls and mail moke it impossible to answer every question. Please, no meoical or legal questions. Answers con only be given in this column. Give your name, oddress and help you. telephone number (not for publication) to help OUR MAN jones By Harry Jones Deseret News staff writer y The group estimated 300,000 persons will die this year and 11 million will become or remain chiuriically ill as a result of smoking. wait for some loudly talking teenagers, jumped them and slapped one. of them around. After this incident, a delegation of parents called on him to complain about his abuse of the neighborhood children. They noted that his guns were prominently displayed on the dining room table throughout their visit. Others who know Liddy describe him as mentally sharp, if slightly eccentric. He had a reputation, they say. for telling the truth. If he ever did talk and denied others were involved, you could believe that, and if he implicated others, you could believe that. the Los Angeles Times quoted Liddvs former law partner as i have sent numerous ly legal The chest physicians opened a two-dameeting to make plans for educating doctors, nurses and other health workers on how to modify the smoking habits of their patients. saying. 1 Can you tell me if It is necessary to have an attorney It be valid to make one out, have both husband and wife sign it, and have it notarized? Wed like to leave everything to our two grown children. We cant afford an attorney. Car. you advise us? Mrs. C.J.A., Granger. ... kids made noise around his house. He berated them, chased them and. on one occasion, leaped upon them from a hiding place on the garage roof. Another time, he lay in City, Utan draw up ones will? Would cials say. Daniel Horn, director of HEWs national clearing house for smoking and health, said Thursday nearly 35 percent of smokers who tried to quit were successful last year. The success figure in 1963 was only 10 percent, he reported to the American College of Chest Physicians. Horn attributed the increase to a climate of efforts to give up more supportive smoking. Contributing to the climate, he said, was publicity about smoking hazards and bans on smoking in a growing number ef public pla es. Thee is no technique for getting people to quit that hasnt worked for somebody, Horn You can almost make people turn said. around three times and bow to the east, adn 35 percent of them will give up smoking. The conditions of the envhonment have chang3d. that he had a fascination for guris; that he distributed to various girls huge pictures of himself beside a police car. gun and flashlight at the ready: that he threatened to kill people who crossed him; that he terrified the youngsters in his neighborhood once by leaping out at them like Batman from a garage roof. My associate Jack Cloherty talked to parents and children in Liddy s neighborhood. They said he sent his own children to bed before dark and became agitated when neighborhood Lakt- The owner filed for bankruptcy on April 3. You wrote to us on March 28. As the letter of information told you, your firm is listed as a creditor. The lettei advised you of the name of the receiver in case you wish to correspond. It took us several days to determine all this, including several visits to the locked store on Main Street, and many unsuccessful telephone attempts to locate the owner. (From the book FIRST EASTER: THE TRUE STORY AND UNFAMILIAR STORY, publtsned by Harper & Row, (c 1973 by Paul L. Maler) his romantic bent. We established US'1, Sdlt statements and letters but get no answers. Can you help Mrs. E.C.R., Buena Park, Calif. me? Just after you wrote to us you should have received all the answers in the mail from the receiver for this shop. Truth behind Watergate locked inside Lidd)x - M,in. P.O. Box $383.95. This goes back to Sept. 1972. Jack Anderson The truth about WASHINGTON the Watergate scandal, it now appears. may be locked behind the clenched mouth of G. Gordon Liddy. Both E. Howard Hunt and James McCord, the other Watergate ringleaders. have now implicated John Mitchell. General White House counsel John Dean and aide Jeb Magruder in and bugging. the Watergate break-iThe three have denied any advance knowledge of the illegal activity. Liddy can Only the give direct testimony. He was the and the aison between the higher-up- s e operation. Hunt and recited elaborate have McCord details, which they swear Liddy gave them about his meetings with Nnteu- - It 1 am having a problem with a store in S.L., the Lemon Tree Gift Shop. They ordered some merchandise from cur firm, Kau Originals, in Buena Park, Calif. They owe us - d Soooi write to Do Bankruptcy filed April 3 The percentage of WASHINGTON (UPI) cigarette smokers who tried to kick the habit and succeeded increased more than three times between 1963 and 1972, government offi- r, 3o4 with pneumonia last my husband's insurbeen 13 months and We've heard nothing and the hospital wants its money. The union representative who was cheeking into the problem for us cant be Mrs. R.A.B., reached. He would appreciate your help. Brigham City. The union rep moved back East four months ago. so thats why youve not heard from her. But we located her replacement who took over the job in December. Although she knows nothing about your problem she is checking into it. She admitted that claims should not take this long to be processed. If you dont get some positive action in a reasonable amount of time, tell us and well dig some more. 'kicking habit' SIR OUR READERS' ACTION LINE My daughter was in the hospital year and she was to be covered by ance through his labor union. It has weve filed for the claim two times. 2.87 reported in SLIDE RULE SAYS NO A.' 1 More success AND MY TOOK TEN SECONDS TO COMPUTE THE RAISE I NEED, w New rep to check 3 month old claim - one-ha- lf . . . Early Sunday morning, Jesus made 11 public entry onto Jerusalem. was the end of all privacy and safety, and the beginning of what would be an collision course with the inevitable priestly and political authorities in the land, lbs irrevocable step was taken deliberately. with every consideration for for otherwise He the consequences, might simply have slipped unceremoniously into the city along w ith the thousands of pilgrims. The word was out. Crowds had started gathering even in Bethany for a glimpse of the rabbi from Galilee as well as the Lazarus whom He had revi ed. In the neighboring hamlet of Kethphuge, a she-as- s was waiting to transport Jesus, according to His own specifications. And then the triumphal procession began, accompanied by shouting and singing from of the throngs lining the people roadsides. They threw down their garments on the pathway to cushion His ride an Oriental "ustom still observed on as well as palm fronds, the occasion symbol of triumph, paving His way with nature's green. What did it all mean? Had Jesur- perhaps arranged for the donkey because He was tired? Hardly. It was morning, and on other occasions He was a tireless walker. It was a gesture of humility, many have suggested, for the ass was the common beast of burden of the time m contrast to the superior horse or gilded chariot used in Homan triumphs. The prophet Zechariah had foretold the arrival ef the Messianic king in Jerusalem via this humble conveyance (9 9), and here the crowd was according a to one wildly triumphant reception whom they hailed as the son of David, a loaded name used at a loaded place, for many Jews expected the Messiah figure to be declared as king on that very Mount of Olives. The priestly establishment in Jerusalem witnessed the procession also, catching and perhaps enlarging on any political overtones in the demonstration. Caiaphas, the high priest, must have cast a worried glance westward in the direction of Herods palace, where the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, had just arrived to be on hand for the passo-ve- r in case any demonstrations such as this one might get out of hand. He must also have marveled at the brazen effrontery of the rabbi from Galilee: the very man for whom arrest notices had been posted across the land was coming directly into Jerusalem in the most obvious manner possible. Next: Intrigue and Conspiracy. His Editor's Note: This It was. quite literally, the week that changed the world. A later age would call it Holy Week and bestow names like Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter on its days. But soon after it happened, the crucial character of Jesus final visit to Jerusalem was realized. Three of the Gospels devote a full third of their content to reporting this week, while the fourth dedicates its entire last half. And rippling across the rest of these records is a sense of inevitability about this life: Jesus of Nazareth was a man born to die not merely in the normal sense, but with some special significance an overtone, a leitmotiv that begins in the Christmas story and recurs throughout the three and years of Jesus public ministry. On occasions. Jesus spelled it out directly, like the time He gathered His disciples together and announced their Passover plans: "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on; "And they will scourge him, and put him to death; and on the third day he shall rise again. The disciples greeted this statement with a collective sag of the jaw. They simply could not grasp the Teachers intent, and the positive note on which Jesus statement ended was merely obscured by the almost suicidal nature of the rest of it. The even dozen who followed Jesus from His earliest public ministry in Galilee seemed to have one thing in common despite their varied backgrounds: a reliable dullness that nardly every taiieu to misinterpret Jesus message, and that usually asked Him the naive question at the wrong time. The Twelve represent all of inquiring humanity, not just the sages, and their however plodding or puzzled reactions are our own. Dial poor? Si It W-eight-par- H W) .P7T , moil Uy IJ, IYJ M IJ DO-1- T y Its late in the day, but put your mind at ease for the remainder of Friday the 13th. Its not unlucky. Take the three on a match bit. It originated in a war. Infantrymen that the third guy to accept a light was often killed. They deducted that snipers saw the flame when the first man lit up, aimed while the second man lit up and fired on the third d The first and anyway. Walking under It comes from an ladder against the bol of life. Walking second men probably died of cancer a ladder is supposed to bring bad luck. ancient superstition because leaning a wall forms a triangle an ancient symunder the ladder breaks the symbol. The only bad luck from a ladder is when your wife hands you a bucket of paint and a brush and says to get at it! A rabbit's foot isnt good luck and won't help you. The rabbit that supplied the foot had four of them, and they didn't do too much for him! Thirteen at dinner is supposed to be bad luck. One of the 13 will die before the year is out. This dates from the Last Supper when Christ and his 12 Apostles dined together on the night of his betray al. With meat prices what they are today, any number above two is unlucky for dinner if you are picking up the tab! clover is good fortune, according to Finding a four-lea- f an old legend. It is supposed to go hack to the Garden of Eden. Eve took one with her when she was expelled along with Adam. Maybe they didn't give her time to pack a suitcase. Sneezing as a bad omen is predicated on the early belief that the soul was composed of breath or air lodged in the head. Sneezing was considered dangerous because it could accidentally expel the soul from the body. They were hectic days back then before anyone knew about hay fever. If someone drops an umbrella, it is considered to be terrible luck, unless someone else picks it up. Somebody else is always picking my umbrella up. Thats not too lucky . either! Horseshoes are supposed to bring good luck if, after finding one, the persnon picks it up, spits on it three times, makes a wish and throws it over his shoulder. The Greeks and Romans handed dow the bit of nailing a horseshoe o er a door to avert bad luck. The only way a horseshoe can be lucky is if it is fast horse someone placed a wager on. There are more unlucky horseshoes than lucky ones! Especially the meat shortage and skyrocekting prices. This was written Thursday because Im sutfering triskedakaphobia confined to my bed. on a a lot with from I promised I wouldn't tell what is happening to my friend. Howard Pearson, our man in the movies, but the tooth fairy iust took out bankruptcy . |