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...presume you are acquainted with the articles by Messrs. Boyle and Angell in Sports Ilustrated and the New Yorker, both about the pre-Yale game week, and which I thought were superb jobs. About the former I had a letter in the 19th Hole in the issue of January 7th, which you may have seen, and which, I think caught the spirit of the article...
...council's most impressive productions is a complete recording of the Koran on 44 disks, by the dean of Islam's Koran readers, Sheik Mahmoud el Hosaris. To make the Koran's 7th century message apply to modern problems, the council's 180 technical advisers are now turning out fresh commentaries on obscure phrases of the Prophet. They operate a fulltime answering service to resolve such religious scruples of the devout as whether a Moslem can accept a blood transfusion from a non-Moslem, and when abortion is lawful...
...7TH ANNUAL OF THE YEAR'S BEST S-F (399 pp.)-Edited by Judith Merril -Simon & Schuster...
...council that ordered a specific change in liturgy last week. Pope John decreed that the name of St. Joseph be inserted after that of Mary in the Canon, the most solemn part of the Mass. The Pontiff's motive for making the first Canon "change since the 7th century was billed as an honor for the patron of the council, but the timing was strange. Extra honor for Joseph had been discussed inconclusively in the council. Council fathers conjectured that the Pope might be setting an example of liturgical change-or that he might be showing that final authority...
Jews were living and working in North Africa before the Romans came. Some of them are Berber tribesmen whose ancestors were converted from paganism before the 7th century A.D. Others are Sephardim-Descendants of Spanish Jews who were forced into exile across the Mediterranean by Visigothic persecution in the 6th century or the Inquisition of the 15th. A third strain consists of European Jews who settled in North African cities after World War II. All three have found that exile is the inevitable aftermath of independence...