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...English Pope, granted sovereignty over Ireland and its Celtic inhabitants to England's Henry II. For the next four centuries, the English tried sporadically and without success to conquer the Emerald Isle. In 1601, however, an army of Elizabeth I defeated the last of the great Roman Catholic earls, and their lands were turned over to English and Scottish colonizers of the Protestant faith. Much of Ireland's history since then has been a record of bloodshed and trouble. Some milestones: 1690. King James II of England, a Catholic convert, was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne...
...charges and the press coverage of the ITT case. Most dramatically, ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, from the Denver hospital where she is said to be suffering from severe angina pectoris, issued a statement disavowing her now famous memo as a forgery, "a false and salacious document." Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska damned the hearings as "this smear-a-day campaign" brought on "because of a spurious document dredged up by the Louella Parsons of the political world...
...laudable but politically ineffective display of unity, Protestants and Roman Catholics, Tories, Laborites and Liberals gathered last week at London's Westminster Cathedral to pray at an "ecumenical service for intercession for Northern Ireland." More than 1,500 worshipers attended the ceremony at which the Archbishop of Canterbury, who presided with John Cardinal Heenan, praised Ireland's patron, Saint Patrick, as a man of forgiveness...
...other races, Republican Governor Richard Ogilvie was easily renominated, and Rep. Roman C. Pucinski of Chicago won the Democratic nomination to oppose Republican Senator Charles Percy...
Sacred music has no part in our lives. In a time when even the Roman Church--pontifex maximus and all--has abandoned the Latin tongue and with it most traditions, there remains barely a shadow of the meaning that church music once had for its listeners. The beauty of the compositions remains intact, however, and Sunday evening's concert was in a nearly ideal setting with the Harvard Glee Club joined by the boys of the St. Paul Choir Scool...