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...chosen, at the age of 26 and as a new convert to Roman Catholicism, was the silent and anonymous life of the Trappist monks, who rise early, work hard, eat little and pray much. When he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky, however, his abbot decreed that Merton should continue writing-as he had since the age of ten. Merton was ordained a priest in 1949, the year after his first major book, The Seven Storey Mountain, had become a bestseller and thrust him permanently into a life of books, articles, poems and a massive correspondence...
Died. Dom Aurelio Maria Escarre, 60, Catalan monk, who for 24 years as Abbot of Montserrat scrapped with the Franco regime until the government forced him into retirement three years ago; of a liver and kidney disease; in Barcelona. Dom Aurelio castigated the government for "not obeying the basic principles of Christianity," and turned Montserrat into a sanctuary, often protecting those sought by Franco's police...
Harvard's defense, led by hustling center half Chris Wilmot and aided by fullbacks Red Jahncke and Barnes Abbot, played exceptionally well throughout the game, turning back all but one of Exeter's attacks. Exeter capitalized on a momentary lapse in the second quarter to score its one goal of the game...
...Middle Ages, women who wanted a boy baby were advised to avoid copulation during the dark of the moon and (while an abbot prayed) to drink wine, mixed by an alchemist, with lion's blood. As often as not, they gave birth to girls. And despite scientists' growing understanding of genetics, modern parents are unable to do any better in choosing the sex of their offspring. But help may be on the way. Two English scientists have devised a technique for controlling the sex of rabbits. Their method, the first to achieve 100% accuracy with any mammal...
...January, George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, resigned from a Pentagon project staff working on the planned anti-personnel barrier between North and South Vietnam. Kistiakowsky, designer of the explo- sive trigger of the atom bomb, would not speak of his resignation in any but a philosophical fashion...