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...problems that Costa encountered in language, employment, and housing, are a three-edged albatross around the neck of Portuguese immigrants. They are representative of what Cambridge's Portuguese find when they reach this country. Inadequate living facilities, low paying jobs, and a language barrier that compounds difficulties in every aspect of life, quickly burst the dream-bubble of the new immigrant...
Language is by far the greatest handicap facing the Portuguese in Cambridge. For Costa, who had had previous exposure to English, language was the first and major barrier he encountered. For others--the majority of Portuguese immigrants in Cambridge who have had no prior exposure to English--the problem is even more compelling...
...object of his bitterest invective was the Pope. Last week, as part of a continuing ecumenical study on doctrinal problems dividing Lutherans and Roman Catholics, a commission of 13 Catholic and 13 Lutheran theologians issued a remarkable statement. The issue of papal primacy, they said, "need not be a barrier to reconciliation" of the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches...
Peter Tetlow had the unenviable task of trying to wrest some Eastern distance freestyle titles from the clutches of Haydon, but nevertheless became the first Harvard swimmer ever to break the 16-minute barrier in the mile, and 4:40 in the 500. Freshman Ted Fullerton cleaned up in the breastrokes, and Tim Neville used his super psych to blitz the field in the 50 free. Some great swims, some even greater times, and an even more amazing season. The fact that the Eastern title won't be Harvard's for at least another year is really the least...
...consortium. The first job of the clearers will be to rid the banks of their lethal carpet of mines, and that step alone should take a month. Then divers will go into the water to pinpoint the positions and depths of wrecks. Silt, once thought to be a major barrier to reopening, will be no problem at all; very little of it has built up during the long years of disuse...