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...Ecumenical Patriarchate has been caught up in the latest phase of the long-standing feud between Turk and Greek. After the Byzantine capital fell to the Ottomans in 1453, Constantinople (now Istanbul) became the heart of a once vast community of Christian Greeks, or Rum* (rhymes with tomb), in Turkey. Terrible cruelty set in with the 1821-29 war, in which Greece won its independence from Turkey. During that period Patriarch Gregory V was hanged at the gate of his palace. Even so, the Rum still numbered 1.5 million by World War I. Today only 7,000 are left...
...POISON THAT FELL FROM THE SKY by John G. Fuller Random House; 113 pages...
...July 10, 1976, when a chemical reactor at Icmesa, a plant owned by the Swiss firm of Hoffmann-La Roche, overheated, then blew its safety valve and released a huge grayish cloud into the clear Italian sky. Workers and company officials assumed that the cloud and the droplets that fell from it onto homes, gardens and livestock were composed of trichlorophenol, an irritating but nonfatal chemical. But the overheating reactor sent the temperature of the TCP soaring above 200° C. Dioxin was formed-a substance so lethal that one hundred-millionth of a gram in a two-pound mixture...
Then the Tigers fell, as Harvard's A's cruised, 5-1, and the B's won, 5-3, in the tournament's round-robin format. The squads did not even play the doubles matches...
...women in white, playing outside for the first time since fall, lost, 7-4, to a strong Wake Forest team. Freshman Martha Roberts, playing first singles, fell, 6-0 and 6-2, to nationally-ranked Cindy Corey, while classmates Meg Meter and Libby Pierpont, junior Sally Roberts and sophomore captain Katie Ditzler fared no better in second through fifth positions. Leslie Miller, another Yardling, notched Harvard's first win at sixth singles...