Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Churchly speculation on who would succeed the late Francis Cardinal Spellman as Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York mostly centered on familiar names. Rochester's Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was one much talked-about candidate; so was Detroit's Archbishop John Dearden, head of the national conference of U.S. bishops. Last week Pope Paul confounded all handicappers by naming as head of the nation's richest and most prestigious archdiocese a young and virtually unknown prelate: the Most Rev. Terence James Cooke, 47, one of New York's twelve auxiliary bishops...
...main impression, however, is one of noise-loud, blasting, unrelenting rock 'n' roll from the Gordian Knot, The Factory's regular weekday band-and familiar faces. Any night the whirling dervishes can include Roz Russell, Barbra Streisand, Sonny and Cher, Dress Designer Jimmy Galanos, Financier Bart Lytton, and Fullback-turned-Actor Jim Brown, who tells friends he feels at home at The Facto ry, proves it by rarely missing an evening. As for The Factory's founders, they have their own soundproof inner sanctum-soon to be opened to the membership at large-which...
They are canning tomatoes now, not the old familiar stewed tomato, but regular fresh tomatoes, cut up and sold as "Canned fresh tomato slices." The new product is advertised on television: happy families eating tomatoes in their salad, smiling as they munch the nutritious tomato slices...
Just ten days of the meditative life with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh proved sufficient for Ringo Starr, 27, and Wife Maureen, who fled back to the more familiar vision of London. "The meditation camp is a bit like summer camp," said the littlest Beatle, who left his three confreres to finish out their month. "We all lived in chalets, and we used to go to the canteen for breakfast, then perhaps walk about a bit and meditate, or bathe. Then it was time for lunch." He and Maureen gave up such transcendental experiences, said Ringo, "because we missed...
...obstacle to Avatar. It promptly rounded up scores of sympathetic youngsters to hawk the paper on street corners. One by one, police picked them up. But as arrests mounted, so did four-letter words in Avatar, reaching a culmination of a sort in a centerfold consisting of four familiar obscenities in yellow, 2½-in. type. Last month, Avatar staged a mass sellin at Harvard Square. Police arrested 23 salesmen on the spot. Last week a Cambridge district court convicted 17 of selling obscene material and imposed fines ranging from $100 to $300. It was the biggest court defeat handed...