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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists even intend to back some dissident Roman Catholic candidates. After World War II, Pope Pius XII threw the full weight of the Vatican behind the Christian Democrats and excommunicated any Italian who voted for Marxist parties-though millions continued to do so. Many Catholics regard the decisions of Pope John's Council, which dealt frankly with religious liberty and freedom of conscience, as freeing them to vote Communist in good conscience. The result has split the nation's Catholic intellectuals into two warring groups, the "conciliari," who follow the Council, and the "Pa-celliani," who hold...
...private backyard museum. So there he was again last week, burrowing into an ancient tomb at Azor, near Tel Aviv, and this dig almost ended in tragedy. Dayan was six feet down in a pit when the soft clay walls suddenly gave way, burying the general under their weight. Bystanders dug him out within a minute, rushed him to a hospital, where he was found to be suffering from two broken ribs, a fractured vertebra and possibly a damaged aorta. At week's end, though, doctors reported him out of danger and growling, "When...
...College Council. Though it is not the Trustees but the Council, at its meeting next Monday, that will have the final say on the constitution, all the Council members also sit on the Board of Trustees and the opinions expressed at the Board meeting are bound to carry weight...
July 4, 1959, stands as the greatest date in the history of the Harvard crew. On that day, the Crimson heavy and light-weight shells culminated undefeated seasons by winning championships in Britain's Royal Henley Regatta...
Harvard crews had been undefeated in the past and three Crimson heavy-weight contingents had won at Henley--in 1914, 1939, and 1950. But never before had a tame combined the two achievements, and never before had the light-weights been in London together with the heavies...