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...consecrated bishop 21 years ago by Pius XII. A tall, gentle man, quick to smile, he is now prefect of the Commission on Justice and Peace. Another is Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume, 55, a Benedictine monk who in 1976 was plucked from obscurity as Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey to become Archbishop of Westminster. Hume's relative youth and inexperience are likely to count negatively with the pragmatic Cardinals...
Lecture: Thursday Speaker Series--"Energy Choices: Environmental Consequences." Michael McElroy, Abbot Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Science. 4 p.m. Sceince Center C. Free...
Lecture: Thursday Speaker Series--"Energy Choices: Environmental Consequences." Michael McElroy, Abbot Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Science. 4 p.m. Science Center C. Free...
...class, Crimson grappler Bill Mulvihill held a 7-0 lead with 15 seconds remaining in the bout. When Mulvihill was distracted due to a positioning argument with the referee, Mariner Dick Abbot suddenly reversed Mulvihill and recorded a pin with only one second left on the clock. The fall erased the Crimson grappler's apparently in 'surmountable lead...
...groceries. For a time a schoolmaster and later a London bank clerk, Murray was drawn into the dictionary project by his work with the Philological Society. In his "Scriptorium," a room lined with hundreds of pigeonholes stuffed with more than 5 million quotation slips, Murray presided like a medieval abbot. Originally he had proposed to devote a mere ten years of his life to the great work. Had he known what it would cost him, Murray might never have started. Always pressed for money, he had eleven children to support, along with his revolving cast of helpers. He endured constant...