Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That the "coterie of middle-aging Catholic college alumnae" then dominating "the ranks of Legion reviewers" [Dec. 3] should be "expanded to include knowledgeable lay and clerical film buffs" was first proposed in my "Hollywood in Focus" column during the 1940s. As one of a dwindling minority of "moderates" among the Legion's lay consulters, I am somewhat loosely characterized in your otherwise excellent story. It is my position that, by faulty communications with Hollywood moviemakers and critical bias in favor of morally and ideologically debatable foreign films, the Legion has now reached the point of surrender to forces...
...yellow-breasted finch, a dropout from last fall's live show on animal behavior. It stayed behind when the other Ijirds and bees were taken away, is living it up on the seed that the Center people set out every evening. Since no one has been able to lay a hand on the bird, it has acquired a nickname: Champ...
...Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis and the Bishops of Oklahoma City-Tulsa and Wheeling have already announced plans to hold "Little Councils" in their own dioceses, in which laymen as well as priests and nuns will take part. Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing plans to establish lay councils in every parish...
...Comrade Mikoyan traveled a long road in our party," he said. "The Soviet people are full of respect for the glorious working career of this outstanding Communist." With that, Mikoyan was awarded the Order of Lenin and stepped from the Soviet stage. The real news of the week lay not in his retirement, but in the changes in Russian hierarchy that followed...
Other obsolete missiles lay around on the ground, waiting for the Air Force to build a museum to house them--a Snark, like the air-breathing monster that ran wild over South America and landed in a jungle in Brazil; a Skybolt; a Minuteman model, slim, looking like three bullets, glued one on top of the other...