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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could to make contact with the Viet Cong. Why, said he, it was as simple as picking up a phone and calling Prague. "I did it myself last Friday morning. Within an hour and a quarter I was speaking to a front representative who, incidentally, was fluent in English." CBS Radio decided to give it a whirl, spent 24 hours trying to contact a Viet Cong agent in Prague, got one who spoke neither French nor English, finally gave up and asked the professor just who it was he had spoken to. "An interpreter and translator, a very cosmopolitan...
...have been helped by his long-run performance as a public scold and Malaprop, whose every appearance was good for scatology and demonology, cracks and castigations, all delivered in a beery Kerry brogue that grew richer year by year. He walked with a limp that he attributed to an English bullet-actually, it was caused by a congenital hip condition later corrected by an operation- and called himself an "elder statesman among public monsters." Mike bluffed so often about striking the city, twinkled so brightly on television as labor's jolly showman, that New Yorkers had ceased to take...
...cozy Elizabethan mansion called Sutton Place, in Surrey outside London, offered 72 rooms, eight manhunting Alsatian watchdogs, four judo experts and two poltergeists dating back to 1777. So on the whole, it should have been ideal for Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, 73. Except for that beastly English winter climate. Even installing central heating and a warm-water swimming pool didn't take the chill off. At last Getty has left Sutton Place and moved into a furnished 14th century castle on the seacoast near Rome...
...scholarly study of religion, shorn of both catechism and clericalism, is fast becoming a major subject in secular U.S. colleges and universities. Two decades ago, only a dozen state-supported campuses had full-fledged religion programs; elsewhere, religion was usually nothing more than the Bible as literature, taught by English professors. Now, says Cyrus Pangborn, head of Rutgers' religion department, "universities recognize that the study of religion is as respectable a discipline as philosophy or sociology...
...without a sense of humor. She loved recounting Degas' remark as he admired one of her many mother-and-child scenes, "It has all your qualities and all your faults," he had said, unable to resist an acid aside. "It is the Infant Jesus and his English nanny...