Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striking reform of the Vatican Council's third session last fall was the decree on ecumenism that authorized Roman Catholics, under certain circumstances, to participate in prayer services with Protestants and Jews. Many U.S. bishops assumed that the decree gave them considerable latitude to encourage interfaith contacts, and have done so. Now Rome has told them to slow down...
Harvard hasn't a prayer of finishing any better than respectably in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Tournament at Cornell today, but at least the Crimson has one wrestler who can be mentioned without embarrassment as a serious contender in his weight class...
...harsh but necessary decision. Among the many things bleeding Brazil is its airline industry. In the early days, the country needed airlines to open up the remote interior. The government awarded routes to anyone with a wing and a prayer, encouraged the lines to stay aloft with subsidies, artificially low fuel prices, and special exchange rates on planes and parts. By 1953, no fewer than 20 scheduled airlines crisscrossed Brazil with a spaghetti-like network of routes. There are still six domestic carriers, including three with international routes. On some routes, as many as five lines compete for the same...
Characteristic of the generally introspective mood that gripped the President last week was the statement he made to 1,000 people-many of them public officials-who attended the annual Presidential Prayer Breakfast sponsored by the International Christian Leadership. He noted that some people are skeptical of public officials who pray. "I am sure," said Johnson, "such skepticism has been deserved by some. But I am more certain that only the unknowing and the unthinking would challenge today the motives that bring our public officials together for moments of prayer and meditation." To his listeners, he seemed to be pleading...
Only Northeastern has a prayer of Challenging Harvard. Both Boston College and Boston University were lopsided losers to the Crimson earlier this year and M.I.T. and Tufts just are not back powers...