Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kety said last week from his summer home on Martha's Vineyard that he was not ready to support the ICF in the wake of "serious" charges concerning the Unification Church and Moon although he was unsure of the truth of the accusations...
...wall by the staircase, a figure of Zacharias writing the name of John the Baptist on a tablet at the prompting of an angel, a memory of the Laocoon-the great Hellenistic figure group that had so impressed Michelangelo when he saw it, newly dug up from a vineyard, in Rome. Though a few of the sketches may be by Michelangelo's assistants, the authenticity of most of them was accepted by nearly all the experts who visited the room as restorers brought them to light. Says Professor Herbert Keutner, director of the German Art History Institute in Florence...
Even the way that Ronan and Powers describe their ministry differs drastically from Griffin's reflection on his role. Both exude a deep introspection and piety reminiscent of the traditional parish priest. Ronan speaks of the "challenge of the tremendous scope of the vineyard at Harvard" and of her "constant concern with outreach and touching the lives of the students here...
...Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control reports new evidence that Amanita phalloides may not be as uncommon in the New World as hitherto believed. For example, in October two people died of mushroom poisoning-a 37-year-old Martha's Vineyard resident who collected Amanita phalloides in his backyard and a 70-year-old Bronx man who picked the mushrooms in a New York park and ate them...
...until 10 a.m. that morning that Kennedy finally arrived at the police station with a written statement that was notable only for its brevity and vagueness. He could not spell Kopechne's name, so he left a blank. The witnesses quickly left Martha's Vineyard, Kennedy heading to Hyannisport and an emergency meeting of the New Frontier brain trust, where a statement explaining the affair was hammered out. On the night of July 25 Kennedy told a vast television audience a well-scripted tale of mental confusion and fear after the accident, heroic rescue attempts, and a half-crazed swim...