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...jovial, kindhearted prelate who still speaks with a strong Irish brogue, O'Boyle had first tried persuasion with the recalcitrant priests. In a ten-page letter to each of them last month, he exuded a gentle, parental tone. "I hope you'll read [this] through," O'Boyle wrote. "Try to understand why I see things the way I do, and try to reconsider your own position." When the priests replied, in a joint statement, that they were sticking to their position, the Cardinal warned a dozen of them that they might be suspended. He later summoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Conscience and the Encyclical | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...place for the eloquent bass guitarist building up elegant harmonies a la Paul McCartney, and John Entwistle knows and does better. A big solid unsmiling figure on stage dressed in black with a white ruffled vest ("I don't move around so I can wear fancy clothes") he is jovial and enourmously pleasant in the dressing room. "There's no other bass guitarist that's better than me because I don't play it like a bass guitar." And it's true, he doesn't. He plays it aggressively like a lead guitar, contributing positively always to the overall arrangement...

Author: By Sal I. Imam, | Title: The Who | 8/13/1968 | See Source »

Life at Cambridge is an eye-opening experience, wrote Britain's Prince Charles, 19, in a maiden essay for the undergraduate newspaper Varsity-particularly at 7 a.m., when the "head-splitting clang" of garbage cans is "accompanied by the jovial dustman's monotonous refrain O Come, All Ye Faithful." After reading that, the Cambridge Urban District Council promptly rerouted Dustman Frank Clarke so that he appeared under the prince's windows at 9 a.m. rather than 7. "I am a bloke who likes to sing at his work," admitted Clarke. "But I think 7 o'clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 22, 1968 | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...FIRST U.S. Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) seems too jovial and soft-spoken to be one of the heroes in the Senate debate on Vietnam. But since December, 1964, Gore has been unyielding in his vigorous opposition...

Author: By Jack D. Burke jr., | Title: Albert Arnold Gore | 3/20/1968 | See Source »

Within two hours, arresting officers returned to the station with five more prisoners. The new arrivals were greeted with a jovial cheer from the first group, which was still being processed by police...

Author: By Stephen E. Cotton, | Title: Police Nab 15 for 'Avatar' Sales; 5 Harvard Students Among Them | 2/6/1968 | See Source »

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