Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second of themes the magazine treats--the position of Catholics in general--is handled best by Joel Porte in "A Jew Speaks to Harvard Catholics," easily the finest article in the issue. Porte begins by explaining how the Jew, also part of an ancient, historically formidable religion, can sympathize with the Catholic. But he goes on to note a possible "secret source of friction between Catholics and Jews," namely the Catholic bitterness at unbelieving Jews like Freud, Marx, and Einstein, who have fashioned so much of the modern world. His challenge to this alienated Catholic is eloquent: "After almost...
Vons in Volkswagens. Like the last great auks waddling across the tundra, a few ancient families still survive in the feudal splendor they enjoyed when Germany was a patchwork of petty principalities. In Franconia, convivial Count Franz Erbach presides over three family castles (one is kept for hunting parties); at dinner, his liveried chief huntsman stations himself behind the count's chair to summon a footman whenever his mas ter's wineglass is empty. Prince Emich zu Leiningen, 36, whose escutcheon is at least 880 years old, is a globe-trotting big-game hunter who honed his marksmanship...
...collection of French paintings and a U.S. heiress for a wife. Because the Bavarian aristocrats have traditionally been less exclusive than Prussia's patricians, Munich today is one city in which the rival elites come together. Munich's jet set, composed of the nouveau riche and the ancient upper crust, shuttles between St. Moritz and Egypt's resort of Helwan. Its reigning beauty is the statuesque blonde daughter of Banker Miine-mann, "Antschi," who hurtles around town in an eggshell-colored Ferrari; however, many families with "von" in their names still prefer to drive Volkswagens. "Everything," sighs...
...began like the Montagues and the Capulets. He was a Lunda boy who wanted to marry a Baluba girl, but the two tribes were ancient blood foes. Last week, in the Katanga town of Jadotville, their love affair resulted in a savage orgy of killing unlike any ever seen on the streets of Verona...
...insects migrated in swarms that darkened the sky, tree limbs cracked under their weight; with their voracious appetites, they consumed growing crops that would have fed millions. But Dr. Reginald Rainey and his colleagues of the Anti-locust Research Center have discovered that the movements of man's ancient enemy have an intimate connection with meteorology. Locusts need rain, and the desert vegetation that rain encourages, before they can breed into black swarms. When the desert bursts into sudden bloom, the locust hordes multiply swiftly. And when they have devoured the thin vegetation, they migrate downwind to bring devastation...