Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Forming the background of the new Jewish response is, of course, the example of Israel, tough and defiant in a hostile sea of Arabs. "Israel has changed everything," says Rabbi Sholom Ber Gorodetsky of the Lubavitcher group in Crown Heights. "The Six-Day War has given Orthodox Jews a courage they never had before." Israel, in a carefully nonofficial way, has supplied more than example. The first karate classes in Brooklyn were taught by bearded, fifth-generation Israeli Zvi Kasspi, an Israeli army veteran. Another Israeli. Hillel Oman, is listed as a teacher of Hebrew studies at the Yeshiva...
...Over vacation many Crimson wrestlers competed in holiday tournaments across the country. Coleman was the 150-pound champion in the C.W. Post Open and Henson took the 134-pound crown in the Washington, D. C. Open. Both competitions had over 400 entries. Faller was third at 177 pounds in the Wilkes Tournament in Wilkes Barre...
Paul had already made his real peroration earlier that day in Hong Kong. His major address in the Crown Colony was studiously unpolitical, though he addressed it to "all the Chinese people wherever they may be." In a sense, it might have been addressed to all those who wondered what the Pope was doing so far from Rome in the first place. "There comes to this Far Eastern land, for the first time in history, the humble apostle of Christ that we are," noted Paul. "And what does he say? Why does he come...
Despite the problems facing the church in the Eastern Hemisphere, there are measurable gains. Prodigious Roman Catholic relief efforts in Hong Kong-second only to government efforts-have so impressed refugees in the Crown Colony that the number of Chinese Catholics there (247,000) approaches the total number on Taiwan. In all Asian countries, more and more members of both the clergy and the hierarchy are being successfully recruited from the local population. Nowhere except in Communist China does the church face official persecution, and in some places it receives unexpected encouragement. Though progress is slow in Moslem Indonesia (about...
There were six reigning monarchs: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, the Shah of Iran, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, King Baudouin of Belgium, Prince Rainier of Monaco and Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg. Charles, Prince of Wales, was seated among other young royalty, including Norway's Crown Prince Harald and Sweden's Crown Prince Carl Gustav. From what was once French Africa came leaders and statesmen from 17 now independent nations, including Senegal's Léopold Sedar Senghor and the Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who revered De Gaulle...