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...nations were present last week to help the mother of parliaments celebrate her 700th birthday in Westminster Hall. Led by House Speaker Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, in full-bottomed wig, black court gown trimmed in white lace and silver-buckled shoes, speakers from 41 Commonwealth legislatures entered the cavernous, 11th century hall to a flourish of trumpets from the scarlet-clad Grenadier Guards. Then came Britain's Lord Chancellor, his robe brocaded in gold, at the head of a procession of Commonwealth legislators, lace jabots at their throats. Next came the plumed platoon of Her Majesty's Body...
Roman teaching was slow in taking final form. Early Christians gave little thought as to precisely how Christ was present in the bread and wine they consecrated and consumed at their simple Communion rites. By the 11th century, theologians had begun to use the term transubstantiation, which was eventually defined in the terminology of Aristotelian metaphysics. The medieval Scholastics proposed that at the consecration, the "substance" of the bread and wine became Christ's body; what remained, visible to the senses, were merely "accidents"-the shape and texture of the host, the taste and color of the wine...
Lefthander Jim McCandlish will in all likelihood be starting for the Crimson as the team goes after its 11th win against 2 losses. McCandlish, a sophomore, pitched the team to a 2-1 win over Yale last month...
...11th minute of the last period that proved disastrous. At 10:03 Welsh deflected Dan Hogan's shot under Welch to tie the score. Just 13 seconds later George Semler skated all alone down the right wing and beat Welch with a fine shot to the far side...
...Miami's Willie Pastrano, 29: an 11th-round TKO victory over Britain's surprisingly tough Terry Downes, in a light-heavyweight championship bout at Manchester, England. Bewildered by the determined, bull-like charges of the challenger (who works as a bookmaker when he is not fighting), outfought for ten rounds, Champion Pastrano came out swinging in the 11th, decked Downes twice before Referee Andy Smyth stopped the bout...