Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close friend of the candidate, Georgetown University neurosurgeon Dr. Alfred Weusenhaupt told a CBS interviewer that Kennedy's chances of retaining his intellectual and speech fuctions were fairly good...
...three mile, junior Doug Hardin, normally a two-miler, forced the pace for the first ten laps before tiring badly with half a mile left. Hardin's time for the first two miles, 8:54, was the best he has done for the distance this spring. Georgetown's Steve Stageberg won the event in meet record time...
...problem hit Father William McFadden two years ago. As head of the theology department at Washington's Roman Catholic Georgetown University, he was supposed to inaugurate a program in Judaism - and no teachers could be found. "There is a rabbi gap," Father McFadden complained wryly. Finally last summer, two Jewish scholars, including Rabbi Saul Kraft of New York City's Queens College, signed up to teach at Georgetown. But across the country other educators still echo McFadden's complaint. The scramble is on to find Jewish teachers-not only of theology but of Jewish history, literature...
Yehoshuah to Jesus. In their lectures, Jewish professors reciprocate by stressing not only Judaism's contemporary relevance but its common links with Christianity. At Georgetown, Rabbi Kraft likes to surprise his stu dents by pointing out that like many a Jewish immigrant's name, Jesus' was changed to fit more comfortably on alien tongues. His real name was Yehoshuah, which was translated as 'Iησοûs in Greek and lesus in Latin; the latter, in turn, be came Jesus. No one expects the campus trend to dispel the doc trinal differences between Judaism...
...legal vacuum cleaner," agrees Georgetown's William Greenhalgh, "but only if misused." Ultimately, it is only the potential for misuse that disturbs most critics. By and large, prosecutors have not gravely abused their potent weapon, perhaps out of fear of provoking judges to limit...