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WHRB, 95.3 on your FM dial, will broadcast the Harvard-Dartmouth hockey game tonight from Hanover's Davis Rank. Coverage of the contest will begin at 7:25 p.m. Genial Bob Burke will be behind the mikes tonight...
...John E. Mines, Presiding Bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church, is a genial, soft-spoken man with a self-deprecating sense of humor. Hines recently startled a meeting of San Francisco priests when he called himself "the worst administrator of any Episcopal Presiding Bishop in history." Last fortnight his fellow Episcopal bishops got a greater shock in the mail: a letter from Hines outlining his plan to retire as Presiding Bishop in the spring of 1974, after the triennial general convention next fall can elect a successor. Hines is the first Presiding Bishop in the church's history...
...weeks ago Syrian President Hafez Assad stopped off in Cairo on his way home from the Soviet Union. His relations with Moscow have become more genial as the Russians have stepped up their cultivation of Mideast allies other than Egypt. The gist of Assad's message from the Russians was: no offensive weapons for Egypt. That was grim news for Sadat, who had been facing growing pressures at home...
TIME Correspondent Honor Balfour writes: "There has been no rejoicing, not even among the government's opponents, over Maudling's resignation, for he is the most popular man in politics. He is honest, sincere, good-tempered, a genial and competent parliamentarian, tolerant and broadminded, yet capable of tough action where necessary, self-confident, a highly civilized man and a most experienced Minister." Colleagues sometimes joked that "Reggie's only trouble is that he is still in love with his wife," meaning that he had remained more wedded to his wife Beryl, a former dancer and actress, than...
...Prine, now 26, has quit the post office, launched into a career as a songwriter and singer, and emerged from his box, so to speak, as one of the nation's most striking new folk talents. But he is still singing the blue-collar blues. His leisurely, deceptively genial songs deal with the disillusioned fringe of Middle America, hauntingly evoking the world of fluorescent-lit truck stops, overladen knickknack shelves, gravel-dusty Army posts and lost loves. In a plangent baritone that makes him sound like a young Johnny Cash, he squeezes poetry out of the anguished longing...