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Born. To Dick Gregory, 39, the comic and activist who has been on a six-month fast (taking fruit juice and water only) to protest the Viet Nam War, and Lillian Gregory, 33, fellow crusader: their ninth child, a girl; in Chicago...
...trip itself will be a rather engaging spectacle. Not long ago, Hirohito confessed that he still kept an old Paris Metro ticket as a memento of the freest, happiest days of his life. In 1921, when he was Crown Prince, Hirohito boarded the battleship Katori for a six-month tour of Europe. His jet flight this week will get him there in 15 hours, instead of the 65 days it took the lumbering Katori to reach England. Accompanied by the Empress Nagako, 68, who has never been abroad, Hirohito will visit seven European countries...
...special branch of Yeshiva University for Jews with little religious education. Soon Yeshiva had a side job for him, as minister to a tiny Conservative congregation whose dozen or so members met only for the High Holy Days in an upper West Side hotel room. Riskin accepted for a six-month trial period after setting three conditions: 1) he would hold weekly services and weekly classes on Jewish law, 2) he would accept no salary, and 3) the congregation must drop "Conservative" from its name...
...vein in his leg, swallow deadly nightshade berries, handfuls of aspirin and, finally, a draft of darkroom hypo-all with no serious results. But when he ran away from school at age 16, his father sent him down to London in 1920 to be psychoanalyzed. The six-month period of analysis, Greene revealingly admits, was the most peacefully pleasant time of his life, along with a brief, comfortable, post-Oxford stint as a subeditor of the London Times. (When he left the Times in 1929 to try a full-time career in fiction, the editors were deeply distressed, not only...
...LMDC charged that the three men are being subjected to "unwarranted harshness" and contended that they will have served out their six-month sentences before appeal proceedings are completed. The men were found guilty of refusing to bear arms when they claimed conscientious objection status last February...