Word: saint
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Died. Max Yasgur, 53, upstate New York dairy farmer who, when original plans for a 1969 weekend rock concert went awry because of local regulations, became the patron saint of the counterculture when he opened his 600-acre farm to more than 300,000 uninhibited, youthful celebrators of the Woodstock festival; of an apparent heart attack; in Marathon...
Hannoun reported that by using a technique devised by Australian Immunologist Fazekas de Saint Groth, his research team had artificially caused such mutants to evolve. He was confident that they had anticipated all the minor changes that nature could produce in the next five years. Thus, he claims, they have produced a vaccine effective against all strains that may develop naturally from now until about 1978. Samples prepared before the London flu strain emerged, he said, had proved 84% effective in tests on human subjects...
BOSTON REPERTORY THEATER. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail after Thoreau. The Little Prince ater Saint-Exupery, The Thirteen Clocks after Thurber, in repertory, as you might expect. Marlboro and Berkeley Streets in Boston...
Minister. That he did, compiling a record of 552 wins and only 140 losses in a quarter-century of coaching at U.C.L.A. Over the years "Saint John," as some rival coaches refer to him, has mellowed a bit. He has done away with the mandatory coat-and-tie rule on road trips. Curfews are still enforced, but he does not sit in the hotel lobby as of old to check on stragglers. And he no longer insists on crew cuts. Even so, at the first signs of the shaggy look he will pointedly ask: "Isn't that barbers...
...while, in America, sportswriters and boxing buffs--mainly whites, but some blacks, too--were doing the Saint Vitus Dance over what they called the irreparable damage Ali was doing to the fight game and its top honor. Like unctuous clergy defrocking a black sheep priest, they mumbled about heresy and the sovereignty of the faith as if pugilism were the true church of Christ in Everlast and Fat City the terminus of the Celestial Railroad. So, they shore Ali of his title, and with silent supplications for the second coming of the Great White Hope, called for a new idol...