Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Harrington led varsity scorers with 22 points, all from the floor, while captain Bob Repetto, Griff McClellan, and Bob Bowditch had 12 points each. The fifth starter, Mike Donohue, played a fine game in the backcourt, netting eight points...
Sorry Awakening. Today, a quarter of a century ahead of Orwell's timetable, a plump peasant who was born a subject of the Dragon Throne, is well on his way to converting Orwellian nightmare into reality in the world's most populous nation. In the past eight months, Mao Tse-tung has herded more than 90% of mainland China's 500 million peasants into vast human poultry yards called "people's communes." If Mao's historic gamble succeeds, the ordinary Chinese of day after tomorrow will have no fixed job, no home and no real...
...week later, a second new hotel will open-the 297-room, $7,200,000 twelve-story La Concha (The Seashell) on the San Juan beachfront. With a casino, eight restaurants and cocktail lounges, a sea-shell-shaped nightclub set by surf's edge. La Concha is aimed to please the crowd bored with Miami and scared of going to Havana because of the Cuban rebellion. The Puerto Rican government built the hotel for $6,000,000. leased it for two-thirds of the net to Associated Federal Hotels, a Southwestern chain (Phoenix's Westward Ho, San Antonio...
Final Cards. Rumors were soon circulating through the Middle East that Russian promises had succeeded in lining up the votes of eight of the twelve attending archbishops-who are responsible for electing one of three candidates nominated by a council of religious and lay delegates. The Communists also circulated reports of an American imperialist plot to take over the patriarchate with Archbishop Antony Bashir of New York (a U.S. citizen born in Lebanon). The Reds played their final cards two days before the election, when a representative of the Patriarch of Moscow donated some $8,000 to "victims...
...Communists increased their pressure on beleaguered Berlin last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), German Catholics -and Protestants too-rejoiced in Pope John's elevation of Berlin Bishop Julius Doepfner to the rank of cardinal. At 45, Doepfner is the youngest cardinal by eight years. Early advancement is nothing new for square-jawed Julius Doepfner. who looks like Dick Nixon with rimless glasses. When he became Bishop of Würzburg at 35, he was the youngest bishop in Europe; he is still the youngest in Germany...