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...Holy Land is an occasion that strains piety. For one thing, it is not one festival but three -Dec. 25 for Roman Catholics and Protestants, Jan. 7 for the Orthodox churches and Jan. 19 for Armenian Christians. More disconcerting, the details for the rites on these separate feast days that celebrate the birth of Jesus are spelled out in a 75-page, three-language manual whose rules are enforced by Israeli military authorities. That is one of the more delicate tasks undertaken by the new rulers of old Jerusalem, who have essayed the rule making only because the churches, which...
That would be a healthy rise for most industries, but it is hardly enough to make up for the worst depression in the tool trade since the 1930s. "It's always feast or famine in this business," says Carl L. Sadler, president of Cincinnati's Sundstrand Corp. Orders for machine tools plunged from a high of $1.7 billion two years ago to some $900 million last year, and they will dip to about $750 million in 1971. Because the industry makes the machines that make other machines, it is carefully watched as a sensitive indicator...
...children, O, don't you want to go to that gospel feast...
...animal partisans rose in outrage, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protested the "ritual slaughter." Comedian Spike Milligan argued, in all seriousness, for laws to protect defenseless fish. Finally the Arts Council of Great Britain and the R.S.P.C.A. worked out a compromise: the feast would go on, but the fish would not be killed in public. Americans who missed the fish show could catch another Harrison exhibit this week in La Jolla. Called La Jolla Promenade, it displays snails being nibbled by white ducks. Whatever the ducks leave will be served up to art lovers...
When Harvard beat Yale, 29-29, in 1968, Vellucci rewarded the entire squad with an Italian feast. "If the team beats Yale this fall, we'll treat them to a real Italian dinner--ravioli, bread, wine, the works," Vellucci said...