Word: localizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trailing by four points with but 24 seconds remaining, Cornell's football team suddenly connected for a 76 yard pass play that defeated the Crimson, 20 to 16. It was as exciting and unlikely a finish as local fans have seen in years...
...Must Die begins innocently, even happily. It is a day of triumph for a small Greek community. Their local oppressor, the Turkish Agha, has benevolently granted his Christian subjects permission to engage in their religion; he has allowed them to stage their passion play. But he, in his infidelity, and the town, in its belief, do not realize that more than a church festival is at stake. Able to cope with the reality of Turkish conquest, they are not really able to cope with belief...
...Relations Department and member of Mental Health Center. The primary purpose of the study has been "to elucidate the nature of the hypnotic state," to discover exactly what hypnosis can and cannot do. Over 200 Harvard and Radcliffe students are participating in these tests along with students from other local schools. The results of these studies have tended to remove much of the mysterious fog that surrounds hypnosis and to clear up many of the popular misconceptions...
...Northern Rhodesia, the. High Court deliberated the fate of two native Africans, Joseph Mubanga and Fitaliano Sakeni. They were members of the Bemba tribe and converts to Roman Catholicism. Their crime: acting on orders of Catholic priests, they had persuaded other Catholic Bembas not to contribute grain to the local Bemba chief. Fined by a native court, they had taken their case to the Bemba court of appeal, which increased their fines. The district commissioner's court upheld the conviction. The two dissatisfied Bembas had finally appealed to the Northern Rhodesia High Court. Behind the seemingly minor and local...
...town of Gemello Minore in Calabria, in parched and poverty-scarred Southern Italy. The cult-prone townsfolk have taken to worshiping at the tomb of Giacomo Nerone, a mysterious World War II deserter who lived less than a year in the town before being shot by Communist partisans. The local bishop asks Rome to send a "Promoter of the Faith" or "Devil's Advocate" to sift the ambiguous signs of Nerone's saintliness...