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...only child, encouraged by doting parents, he became what he had hoped to be. Fate has sometimes kissed him. Once, on a fall day in 1960, he was "falling in love and away from marriage." He went down to Boston to visit a woman friend on Beacon Hill. She was not home. Disappointed, Updike wandered off and remembered that the Red Sox had a game scheduled at Fenway Park that afternoon. He went and saw Ted Williams hit a home run in his final at-bat, during what turned out to be the last game of his splendid career. Inspired...
...York City's liberal Union Theological Seminary ("an important new addition to the life of Christians, the churches and the world . . ."). So far, only cranky Fundamentalists seem to be offended. They argue that Christians must take the Bible straight, the way God gave it. Warns the Christian Beacon: "The Reader's Digest has done a good job for Satan...
...quickly seemed impossible. Yet through a miracle of the space age, the help came. On its regular sweep over western Canada, a Soviet satellite, equipped with special electronic "ears" to hear the beeps of small planes or ships in distress, picked up the downed aircraft's automatic emergency beacon and relayed the signals to an antenna outside Ottawa. There a computer quickly used them to obtain a navigational "fix" on the crash site. Within hours, a helicopter plucked the three men out of the wilderness, injured but alive...
...hottest issue on Beacon Hill right now involves the nuclear freeze. While the Senate has approved placing a nuclear freeze referendum on the ballot in November--similar to one which passed last week in Wisconsin--the House has had some reservations, and key leaders are blocking its passage...
Nagy and his family are now settled into a comfortable home on Beacon Hill, after years of "all sorts of commuting tricks" between here and Princeton. His wife has recently finished work on her Ph.D. in Persian and Arabic literature...