Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe, participating in its first New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association regatta of the season, October 9, edged Mt. Holyoke, 78-73, for top honors in the two-division event...
...chief rabbi of the Israeli armed forces, has ruled that soldiers can work on the Sabbath for the sake of national security and that electricity may be used on holy days because it is not the same as the fire whose kindling on the Sabbath was forbidden by Exodus. England's newly elected Orthodox Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits (TIME, Aug. 26) recently got around the traditional Orthodox opposition to birth control by ruling that the Biblical injunction, "Be fruitful and multiply," was addressed to men only-and that women are therefore free to use contraceptive devices to limit births...
Yesterday, the Harvard sailing team steered past a field of eight New England colleges to win a 15-foot Finn class regatta. Boston University was actually in the lead going into the eighth and final race, but acrobatics by high point skipper Bill Underwood gave him his fourth first and Harvard the meet...
...help Northeast, the Civil Aeronautics Board ten years ago added the lucrative New York-Miami run to its New England routes. Seven years later, anxious to help National and Eastern and assuming that there was no longer much hope for Northeast, the CAB took back the route that was providing Northeast with two-thirds of its income...
When Alistair MacLean temporarily retired from writing three years ago, he settled down to running a couple of restaurant-bars in the south of England. That is probably just what the heroes of MacLean's The Guns of Navarone and H.M.S. Ulysses would have done. They were tightlipped, quietly efficient men who were repelled by heroics, and obviously wanted nothing more than peace and quiet after their hazardous call to duty ended. In this book, however, MacLean has smashed the mold. Secret Agent Philip Calvert, his new hero, must have got his basic training by watching James Bond movies...