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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though his homily chided Americans for material and physical excesses, the audience responded warmly to him. interrupting his address 40 times to applaud. Many people in the crowd had waited to see him for six hours...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Veni, Vidi, Vici | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

Although he met the U.S. Chess Federation's Master qualification last year by amassing 2200 tournament points, Bromberg's title is still unofficial because the federation's computer has been out of order for six months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chess Master Takes On All Comers And Defeats Seven of 15 Opponents | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

Kellogg has adapted well to the limitations of the game. Since taking up the sport as a high school freshman six years ago, she has played four different positions, first as right halfback for the Stowe (Vt.) High School varsity in her first season. In the following three seasons, she saw action as both a right and left halfback before becoming a fullback in her senior year...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Elaine Kellogg Team Leader With Eyes for a Title | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

...UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, Tufts, Brandeis, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Boston State, Worcester State, and Harvard, with contingents coming in from Oberlin, Kent State, and Cincinnati. Boston high school students are also getting involved. Harvard, which was rather poorly represented at the 1977 civil disobedience action, will send five or six affinity groups to the occupation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STOP Seabrook Oct 6 | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...group of peasants together. Prayer punctuates their daily lives like the motif in the Bach concerto underscores their joys and sorrows. A woman angrily exhorts the Lord to save the life of her cow; her prayer reprimands a God who would let the only cow of a widow with six children become ill. The Pater Noster becomes a magic spell chanted in Latin by the local healer, and always there are the endless "Ave Marias," with the accent heavily on the Ave, which are brought forth, like my old Irish Grandmother's frequent "Mother of God!" for any occasion...

Author: By Sarah M. Mcgillis, | Title: Truth and Beauty | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

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