Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard hockey team faces its fourth Eastern hockey power in a week tonight when it plays its by-now familiar underdog role at Brown. But the 8 p.m. contest at plush Meehan Rink is more than just another chance for an upset; it is the Crimson's Ivy opener against essentially the same Bruin squad that won the League championship last year and thrashed fallen Harvard...
...badly organized, requiring long waits. Way back in 1634, Massachusetts switched from voice voting to paper ballots. Today, most Massachusetts precincts still use paper, and so do a majority of the nation's other 173,000 precincts, despite the fact that electronic progress has already bypassed even the familiar automatic voting machine...
Already swarming with familiar names, the Soviet fourth estate had another: Anatoly Andreevich Gromyko, 34, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's son, who abandoned a bright diplomatic career as Russia's embassy counselor in London to become deputy department chief of the Soviet press agency Novosti. Now he'll be reporting what Daddy and his friends do from the same building on Moscow's Pushkin Square where Leonid Brezhnev's daughter Galina does her corresponding. Presumably they both will scoop Julia Petrova, a Novosti reporter whose grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, is not a very good news source...
...Charlie Brown Christmas stars all the familiar Charles Schulz cartoon characters, faithfully animated by ex-Disney Artist Bill Melendez. The par able, too, is pure Schulz. Christmas is coming, but "good oF wishy-washy" Charlie Brown doesn't "feel the way I'm supposed to feel." "Look, Charlie Brown, let's face it," explains Lucy...
Jesus, sensing Judas' cupidity, chose him as the instrument of betrayal in order to fulfill the prophecy of Psalms: "Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted . . . hath lifted up his heel against me." Jesus' "stratagem," says Schonfield, was "designed to pile on the pressure at the crucial moment and induce the traitor to act." When Mary washed his feet with precious ointment, Jesus let "fall the words about his body being anointed for burial." Like "an inspiration it came to" Judas "that money was to be made by doing what Jesus plainly wanted. The tempter came...