Word: irelands
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Preaching Dialogue. Jakobovits qualifies on most counts. The son of a rabbi, he was born in the former East Prussian capital of Konigsberg, educated in Britain, and served for a decade as Ireland's chief rabbi before coming to the U.S. in 1958. In Ireland, some British Jews recall, his advice on moral issues amounted to "the rabbi says you mustn't"; in the U.S., however, he is counted among the modern Orthodox leaders who seek to accommodate Halacha to contemporary issues. An expert on medical ethics, he frowns on contraception, points to the low birth rate among...
...that flies across the Atlantic, TWA loaded other airlines with its strandees-a move that added $1,000,000 a day to the nation's balance-of-payments deficit. Even so, some 1,500 Americans were still looking for a way home last week, including 250 at Shannon, Ireland, and about 400 in London, where a party of Massachusetts schoolteachers bedded down on airport couches. The strain in Spain was mainly to get aboard Iberia Airlines planes from Madrid to New York. Last week police quelled one fracas in which 19 irate tourists threatened to slug counter attendants...
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Harvard was the original owner of the Boyden Observatory when it was moved, in 1927, from Peru to Bloemfontein, in the Orange Free State -- what one South African described as the Mississippi of South Africa. In 1955 a cooperative was formed in which Harvard shared the Observatory with Northern Ireland, Ireland, Sweden, West Germany, and Belgium. On July 1, 1966 Harvard transfered its administrative and logistic responsibilities to the Smithsonian Astro-Physical Observatory which is closely linked with the Harvard Observatory...
Religious antagonisms have long been strong in Ireland, especially since 1690, when Britain's "Glorious Revolution" secured Protestant ascendancy to Ulster. To try to ease the old hatreds, Protestant O'Neill broke all precedent last year by inviting the Republic of Ireland's Catholic Premier Sean Lemass to Belfast. It was then that Paisley, fearing a sellout to the Catholics, began stumping Ulster's six counties, attacking everyone from the Pope ("old red socks") to the Archbishop of Canterbury ("another traitor"). "O'Neill might as well try to stop Niagara Falls with a teaspoon." Paisley...