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...routes and using management employees to do the jobs of striking workers, Pan Am has been able to keep 137 of its 390 daily scheduled flights in operation. Thousands of passengers have been stranded from Istanbul to Rio, however, and others have endured service turbulence as supervisors performed such unfamiliar tasks as sorting baggage and serving meals. When a Manhattan traveler whose flight had been canceled demanded to see the management, his ticket agent growled, "I am the management...
...consecrated bread and wine are distributed: "We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table . . ." The words, unfamiliar to Roman Catholics, come from the Book of Common Prayer, cherished by Anglicans since the first edition of 1549. The passage now forms part of a Vatican-approved hybrid Mass text that is based largely upon the Prayer Book. Only the central Eucharistic Prayer and a few other sections are from...
Harvard, however, will be facing off in an unfamiliar Duluth Arena today and the Bulldogs will be playing in a rink in which they've won 22 of their 26 games this year...
...comes to music played by Harvard bands, the most crucial element is the beat. "A lot of the bands at Harvard are trying to be very original, but if often comes down to whether it's danceable," she said, adding, "Many of the bands play music that is unfamiliar. It's great musically, but people just can't get down and boogie...
Then why are most Americans unfamiliar with it? For one thing, the bacterium that causes chlamydia could not be easily isolated and studied until 1965. "The bugs couldn't be grown in the laboratory, and people don't want to work with things that are difficult," says Julius Schachter, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco. Then, too, the presence of chlamydial infections until recently could be detected only by a complicated laboratory test that took up to seven days to complete and was offered at few medical centers in the U.S. As a result, chlamydia was rarely...