Word: bernard
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...immigrant kids off the streets with hot showers and 50 violin lessons. Later it meant developing the New York Pro Musica ensemble, harboring dancers from Martha Graham to Jose Limon, and attracting some of the most literate audiences in the U.S. While salvaging such once-poor Jewish boys as Bernard Baruch and Billy Rose, the 92nd Street YMHA has always refused to be parochial. In 1880, for example, it led New York Jews in raising cash for "the starving people in Ireland." Nowadays about 15% of its membership is non-Jewish. Unlike Christian Ys, this one has been unabashedly coed...
Lynda Bird's engagement to Roman Catholic Bernard Rosenbach is causing an ecclesiastical murmur. The White House refuses to say whether or not she is taking Catholic instruction. The zealous Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State sees the coming marriage as a chance for the Catholic Church to prove the sincerity of its new ecumenical intentions by "permitting Miss Johnson to choose her own clergyman and waiving the traditional Catholic commitment...
...centuries, the Great St. Bernard Pass was the most popular gateway through the Alpine rampart separating southern and northern Europe. Up its tortuous trails from the Rhone valley climbed tumultuous hordes of Gauls and Germans to sweep down on Italy. And this way, says legend, came Carthaginian Hannibal and his elephants. Climbing the other way, from the beautiful Val d'Aosta, came Caesar's Roman legions intent on conquering tripartite Gaul and planting the legionary eagles on the banks of the Rhine. Nineteen hundred years later, after crushing the Austrians at Marengo, Napoleon and his grenadiers retraced Caesar...
Where armies went, peaceful travelers and brigands followed. In summer, crossing the pass was exhausting and dangerous. In winter, only the very skilled or very lucky escaped death in the snow-choked heights, where temperatures dropped to 22° below zero. St. Bernard of Menthon, in the 11th century, founded his famed hospice to offer aid and shelter to weary travelers; only rarely, nowadays, do the monks and their St. Bernard dogs go out in search of lost souls, although some poor Italian emigrants and occasional smugglers may risk their lives after September, when the pass is closed to motor...
...handled in a single customs office, and drivers pay the fares, ranging from 90? for a motorbike to $18 for a bus. The neon-lit tunnel, 14 ft. 9 in. high, rides over a pipeline that brings oil from Genoa to a Swiss refinery at Collombey. The new St. Bernard, which will be formally inaugurated by the presidents of Italy and Switzerland in June, is the world's longest auto tunnel. But not for long. The Mt. Blanc tunnel of over seven miles from France to Italy will surpass it when it opens for business next year...