Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and the only real question was where he would go next. The answer: Nearly everywhere. Late this month, the White House announced, Nixon will begin an approximately eleven-day trip around the world that will take him to five Asian countries and the Eastern European state of Rumania -marking the first time that a U.S. President has visited a Communist country since F.D.R. conferred with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta...
...Scottish Argonauts, while considered a strong crew in England, can't match the caliber of Eastern college competition which the Crimson defeated so easily this year. American crews have traditionally cleaned up English eights during Henley's earl rounds, and it is quite probable that the other two American entries, the Penn freshman heavies and M.I.T. varsity lights, would have 'rounced the Argonauts by well over a length...
...eight sought the same goal, with results the present crew will try to avenge. With the cream of the world's crews shooting for Olympic berths last summer, Harvard's lights had figured to dominate Henley. They didn't. A Cornell boat that the Crimson had ripped at the Eastern Sprints dumped them at the American Henley in a warm-up race, then slaughtered them in England a week later...
...Instead, convinced that "TV is the only way to reach the non-churched," Graham and his team settled for a far smaller in-person crowd (some 200,000) during a ten-day crusade and concentrated on saturation TV coverage: one-hour condensations of the proceedings each night on 17 eastern television stations. He even used closed-circuit color TV inside the Garden to bring the proceedings to overflow crowds. Remarkably enough, a higher proportion of these listeners came forward to make "decisions for Christ" than in the Garden proper...
...patron, but they will think less kindly of Rome." In Washington, D.C., the Russian Orthodox community expressed its feelings by packing the church for a May feast day honoring St. Nicholas. Some Orthodox churchmen complained that Rome insulted their faith by unilaterally downgrading saints who were especially revered by Eastern Christianity...