Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arts And Letters waltzed down the stretch the other Saturday to win the Jim Dandy Stakes by 10 lengths. It was a most convincing victory, and people have begun to bandy the word 'great' around when mentioning this quick little champion. 'Great' in horse racing applies only to the sacrosanct, exaulted by their heroic achievements and Olympic genealogy...
...visit to Saratoga Springs and a viewing of Saturday's classic might well be in order before exams. After all--the Whitneys, the Vanderbilts, the Von Stades, the Mellons, and the Phippses will be enjoying the scenery, and one can hardly fault their taste...
Gods and Grids. On Saturday morning the 6,000-ton vessel Orpheus sailed out of Piraeus harbor. By midafternoon, after the first of a series of daily swims and visits to fascinating ruins, the passengers gathered on the ship's deck for a two-hour working meeting. "Society and Human Settlements: Policies for the Future" was the stated theme of the conference, but policies rarely emerged. The language unfortunately was almost unfailingly prolix, sententious and jargon ridden...
Twice during his grueling schedule, Paul had met with Nigerian and Biafran representatives in a vain attempt to mediate the Nigerian impasse-and had even offered to stay in Africa a month if it would help bring peace. He did not stay. On Saturday morning he joined Anglican dignitaries for a brief ecumenical service at their own shrine, then went on to the partially built shrine of the Roman Catholic martyrs, where nearly 100,000 people had gathered for the Mass of dedication. He baptized, confirmed and gave First Communion to 22 young Uganda converts, telling them that being...
...disrupting Catholicism in developed countries-urbanization, secularization, loss of faith altogether. Perhaps, as the Pope suggested in one address, the African's "deep sense of community" will help offset these forces, but the church's task will not be easy. Nonetheless, when the papal retinue departed Uganda Saturday, Paul VI left behind a church with a newly realized sense of self and a new pride in virtues that had been too long overlooked...