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Although the students risk arrest with the ongoing occupation of the administrative building, HUPD officials appeared relaxed last night as they stood outside Mass. Hall-a far cry from the tear gas and violence of the legendary...
...started shortly after 7 on Friday morning as smoke drifted through the glittering casino on the first floor of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Within minutes the world's largest gambling hall-a 140-yard stretch of roulette, blackjack and dice tables and 1,000 slot machines-was engulfed in flames. The fire raced through the entire ground floor of the 2,076-room hotel, one of the largest in the world, destroying two cavernous, 1,000-seat showrooms, an arcade of 40 shops, and five restaurants. "Flames were shooting out the entrance," recalls Theresa Ricky...
...rhetoric resounded interminably in plenary sessions at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall-a $5 million gift to Sri Lanka from the People's Republic of China-delegates found more agreement in a committee devoted to economic matters. Among their proposals: producer associations to get higher prices for basic commodities, detailed plans for trade expansion with the developed countries and cooperation in the establishment of a Third World currency and a development bank. Said the committee: "The developing countries, and particularly the poorer ones, are in a state of total desperation...
Kisses and tears out of the way, along with the Mass, it became President Richard Nixon's show the next night, when the Concert Hall-a far more tasteful room-opened with a performance by Conductor Antal Dorati and the city's National Symphony. The Nixons' guest was Mamie Eisenhower, who got a standing ovation from the audience-though probably few remembered that it was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, not J.F.K., who gave the Center its first impetus back in 1958 by pushing legislation through Congress...
...spiritual error that the Reformation was designed to combat. The typical parishioner, adds Marty's colleague at the University of Chicago, Theologian Brian Gerrish, feels that he has "done something that puts God in his debt if he puts down a nice thick carpet in the chancel hall-a sort of afterlife insurance policy." Some laymen feel that all too many clerics are trying to earn what Marty calls "Brownie Points" by engaging in secular crusades-picketing against Viet Nam or for civil rights...