Word: dame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That debacle cost Multimillionaire (newspapers, radio and TV) Packer an estimated $675,000-hardly enough to dent his enthusiasm. Last year he spent about $150,000 to have Gretel rebuilt for another try, but that came to nought (TIME, January 27) when a brand new Aussie challenger, Dame Pattie, convincingly trounced Gretel in a series of shakedown races off Sydney. Nothing would do then except to rebuild Gretel yet another time. Back she went to the yard, where, at a cost of $44,800, shipwrights stripped off all her double hull planking, altered every frame, shortened her keel and covered...
...play. A game at U.C.L.A. would provide long-desired West-Coast exposure, but up to now the embarrassment of a score like 110-28 blotting the Crimson ledger has outweighed the advantages. And with its Boston Irish-surroundings, Harvard has always been considered a "natural" football opponent of Notre Dame. But again, fear of a lopsided score has prevented the match...
Transignification. The New Catholic Encyclopedia includes reports on many subjects that were ticked off in a sentence or two in the old edition-contraception, for example, was barely mentioned in the entry on marriage. The new reference book contains an eight-column treatise on the subject by Notre Dame Law Professor John T. Noonan Jr., a member of the pontifical birth-control commission. His article, like many others, does not simply reflect traditional views. Noonan suggests that the church's position developed in response to historical challenges, and can there fore change in the light of new conditions...
Trustees of the "independent" schools shouldn't be any more frightened of public funds than university trustees, Sizer argued. "Arrogantly autonomous Harvard derives over 40 per cent of its budget from the federal government," he pointed out, "and while constant battle is waged to retain old Dame Cambridge's virginity I think it's yet intact...
...Guardian. Terence Eagleton, 24, an editor of the New Left periodical Slant, is a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. All these writers found a platform for their views in New Blackfriars, and their writings are beginning to circulate in the U.S. This month the University of Notre Dame Press is publishing Wicker's Toward a Contemporary Christianity...