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Just two weeks before, yet another Moorish movie palace, Miami's Olympia, had shut down.* Typically, rural theater chains like Oregon's Adamson have reported a 30% drop in volume in the past year. In Portland, where business is also dragging, the "nabes" (the trade term for neighborhood houses) are now closed except on weekends, and some metropolitan theaters, even in New York's Times Square area, will be dark until the beginning of the Christmas season. Across the country, weekly movie admissions have steadily and disastrously declined after reaching a peak of 80 million...
From the days of the Council of Trent, Protestantism has been virtually an underground movement in Spain. Baptist missionaries from Sweden and the U.S. began work there in 1870 under a short-lived religious-freedom law, but later on the small churches were often shut down. Only since a new law was passed in 1967 have the 10,000 Baptists and other non-Catholics been able to hold public meetings. But the specially warm welcome the Baptists received was also probably the result of recently strained relations between the government and the Catholic Church, which outdid each other in greeting...
Penn met with defeat for the first time last Saturday at the hands of Villanova in the annual Big Five championships. The Quakers, who had shut out the first 10 teams they faced, could not match the Vilanova's top three runners, Marty Liquori, Don Walsh and Dave Wright, who took the first three places...
...lines of Islam meant that he couldn't join us either, they started rumors. You know, there's going to be a race riot. Well, you see, we wasn't talking about race riots. We was talking about history and facts. But they had to find some way to shut us up; so they locked us up. They locked up seven of us, but they didn't lock nobody white up. It's just like they do out here. You know, the cat that becomes the most articulate is the cat that gets ripped off. It got to the point...
Aside from its inability to keep up with Clune, the defense didn't play too badly. The line shut off Penn's running game and dumped Shue behind the line eight times. And the secondary, despite its porousness, picked off three Shue passes. As usual, Captain Dave Ignacio came up with the biggest interception, dooming the Quakers by grabbing a Shue pass with a minute and a half remaining in the game. Harvard's punt and kickoff coverage was weak, relinquishing 190 yards, but the kickoff return showed breakaway possibilities with the return of Rod Foster. Foster had one unbelievable...