Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elephants that roam South Africa's huge Kruger National Park are normally friendly enough. Last week however, even park rangers kept their distance from the beasts. One elephant recently sat down on a Volkswagen and flattened it, though the two German tourists inside had time to escape...
...touring musicians to the embassy near Sheridan Circle for noisy Sunday after noon jam sessions. They flouted the racial mores of the day in Washington by staging jazz concerts before mixed audiences. Their mother nervously told friends that the boys were "doing research in American folk music." The ambassador kept telling himself it was a passing fancy...
...mural has fascinated local res idents-a mixed bag of Village hippies, Poles, Ukrainians and Puerto Ricans. "At first," says D'Arcangelo, "they thought it was going to be some sort of a sign, and kept asking which company was putting it up. We kept telling them, 'We are painting this for you.' Pretty soon, they began to like the idea." Only problem: if a new building goes up in the parking lot, there goes the mural, sealed off from sight between old wall...
...spray. Last week a Hollywood packaging agency announced that it was working up yet a new variation on the theme. It will be called The Newly Pregnant. "Specifically," explained one of the producers, "it's a group of three pregnant women who appear onstage while their husbands are kept in an isolation booth. The women are asked questions about raising children. Then they go into the booth, and their husbands are asked the same questions. The couple whose answers most nearly match win complete free hospital care and perhaps layettes and things like that...
...broad term encompassing the efforts of certain scholarly priests and laymen to bring Catholic teaching into line with contemporary scientific and philosophic thought. In 1921, long after the leading modernists had been excommunicated, Pope Benedict XV sensibly suppressed Benigni's spy ring. The memory of modernism has been kept alive, however, by a solemn oath against the heresy* that every Catholic priest since 1910 has had to take before receiving holy orders. Last week, Vatican sources reported, Pope Paul VI decided to abolish the oath-taking requirement, which a generation of seminarians has viewed with bemusement if not contempt...