Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more intense the competition, the better the Braintree native performs. At last year's Eastern Championships, Gauthier placed in all three of his individual events, scoring 36 individuals points. He also was a key member of both the 800-yd. and 400-yd. freestyle relays which placed first and second, respectively...
...young corps of Crimson grapplers stood its ground against older and more experienced competition at this weekend's Coast Guard Tourney, held in New London, Conn., and nabbed 36 points for a respectable fifth-place finish in the team standings. Columbia, a traditional Eastern powerhouse, grabbed first with 83 1/2 points...
Canadian-born freshman heavyweight Jim Phills lost to former Eastern champion Jay Craddock of Columbia in the semifinals. An experienced wrestler, Craddock choked out Phills' attempts to use upper body moves by shooting single leg attacks and maintaining his distance...
...since Christianity first reached it 1,100 years ago, the Ukraine has been strongly religious. Located southwest of Moscow, the region, with a population of 50 million, is agriculturally rich and deeply nationalist. In the 1930s Stalin all but crushed the autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church and in 1946 expunged Eastern-rite Roman Catholicism in favor of the more easily controlled Russian Orthodox Church. Even so, the Ukraine by official count still has 4,000 of the 11,000 Orthodox churches now open in the U.S.S.R.-only a fraction of the 53,000 churches in Russia before 1917. Protestant Ukrainians have...
There are no Eastern-rite Catholic parishes left, the Metropolitan says. Despite reports in the West of 300 to 500 underground clergy, only "old priests and a few people" are left. Surprisingly, he declares that "the Soviet state is not an atheistic state. It consists of believers and nonbelievers. There are periods of strong antireligious propaganda and others of less...