Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX. While the wreckage of a twin-engined transport sizzles in mid-Sahara, Director Robert Aldrich coolly studies a crew of survivors headed by James Stewart in their attempt to escape on a wing and a prayer...
...prayer has not been very effective. Red rail splitters frequently remove 20-yard stretches of track, once pirated a locomotive and sent it barreling into Saigon's Central Station, where it demolished two waiting rooms and killed ten sleeping soldiers. More damaging has been the effect on South Viet Nam's economy: vegetable prices have soared 60% since the Communists cut the line between Dalat and Saigon, and the cost of "33" brand beer, Viet Nam's favorite brew, has climbed from 15 to 70 piasters a bottle in Danang. Says a U.S. adviser: "The only...
...said, "I am always conscious of the ocean here." So conscious, in fact, that he sliced his second shot clear over to the opposite side of the 18th fairway, wound up stymied behind a tree. Whereupon Massengale pulled a No. 8 iron from his bag, said a silent prayer and swung. The ball sailed straight through a hole in the branches and landed on the green only 4 ft. from the pin. The easy birdie putt gave him a one-stroke victory worth...
...Acres of old maids" (as one priest puts it) have loved the novena-the Roman Catholic prayer service, usually offered once a week in the evening in honor of a saint or the Virgin Mary. Now the novena seems to be dying. Next month the magazine Novena Notes, published by the Servile Fathers to promote novenas to Our Sorrowful Mother, will suspend publication because there is no real demand for it. "The novena is no longer very popular," say the editors. "In fact, attendance has fallen to a perilous low mark...
...word novena comes from the Latin word for nine, and originally meant a nine-day cycle of Masses said for the repose of a dead person's soul. Gradually it evolved into a prayer service in which people asked a favorite saint to plead their cause in heaven. In modern times, many novenas became perpetual-conducted weekly in churches throughout the year. The most popular were dedicated to the Virgin Mary under a variety of names such as Our Lady of Perpetual Help or Our Sorrowful Mother...