Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours on end, a solitary figure sat stiffly in an ornate office in Buenos Aires' presidential Casa Rosada. A few lifelong personal friends kept an uncomfortable vigil in an ivory and green anteroom. Outside the door, a pair of knee-booted grenadiers of the palace guard stood, like life-sized toys, with ceremonial sabers bared. A stream of messengers came and went, bearing bulletins. Arturo Frondizi, 53, President of Argentina and currently his country's most unpopular man, was waiting to see whether he would be allowed to remain as elected Chief Executive of South America...
...Farm Vigil. To confront Powers with these questions, the press staged a manhunt of its own. The trail was picked up near Easton, Md., by an Associated Press stringer named Mary Swain, who had a hunch that Powers might be in a nearby estate called Ashford Farms that the Government had bought some years ago and used for mysterious purposes. Armed with binoculars, she set up a vigil in a lane adjoining the farm, noted a great coming and going of cars. One night, a blue station wagon carrying six men sped out of the gate and down the road...
...William T. Foley, a Manhattan vascular specialist. From Washington came Eunice Kennedy Shriver, on the same plane that brought Secretary of State Dean Rusk to Palm Beach en route to the Bermuda conference. Ted Kennedy. Jean Smith and Ann Gargan spelled one another in a round-the-clock vigil near Room 355. where Joe Kennedy lay. Across the hall, doctors kept their own vigil. On the door to the doctors' room was a bronze plaque: "In Memory of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.* Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy...
...ceremonies at St. Mark's, a member of the Illinois Synod, are no once-a-year ritual. With the approval of his church council and the congregation, Stephen Bremer has instituted daily morning prayer. Communion service on Sundays and saints' days, an evening vigil at Easter; private confession is available to any parishioner who wants it. Nor is St. Mark's an isolated example. Across the country among Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Lutherans, a radical reform in both the form and content of religious services is now under way. It is a liturgical revival that both goes...
...Note--The graduate student who saw Dean Watson Tuesday about the vigil in the Yard told the CRIMSON that he was a representative of Tocsin. Since then, he has issued statements in the name of Tocsin. In the future, the CRIMSON will ignore...