Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CATHOLIC HOUR (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). A young priest working in a slum ghetto faces an identity crisis in "Many Roads to Damascus," the second of four original TV dramas...
...Foreign Frivolities." Last week the government-run Damascus radio declared that "the land that has been taken away from us by force can only be recovered by force" and accused Israel of preparing another aggression against Syria. Laborers in Damascus dug roadside trenches in anticipation of an aerial bombardment from Israel...
...policy that he calls "foreign cultural evacuation." The regime is doing away with most French and English classes in Syrian schools. It has just taken control of Syria's 885 private schools, many of which are church-run, thereby evoking the combined wrath of the Moslem Mufti of Damascus and the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Syria. It has also "nationalized" the textbooks in these schools to make sure that they contain a proper dosage of socialist doctrine...
...took only two minutes in the $107,800 Woodward Stakes at New York's Aqueduct race track to convince the few remaining doubters that Mrs. Edith Bancroft's Damascus is 1967's top three-year-old. That became abundantly clear when Damascus flashed under the wire a good 10½lengths ahead of Dr. Fager, who beat him in the Gotham Stakes this April. And that was the least of the triumphs. In their first meeting at the Woodward, Damascus put a quick end to all speculation about whether he was a better-or at least sounder...
Despite a chance of scattered showers and more publicized television clashes between the Red Sox and Twins, Damascus and Dr. Fager, Benvenuti and Griffith, and Dartmouth and Massachusetts, a crowd of 12,000 is expected to show up for the debut of the 1967 Crimson...