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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Central Mysteries. Actually, Rome's reform was an attempt to carry out one of the mandates of the Second Vatican Council: to update an antiquated liturgical calendar that was cluttered with unfamiliar, and in some cases probably fictional figures. Some of the updating consisted of replacing little-known early martyrs (and no less than 17 early Popes) with a wider sampling of countries and vocations: the newly included Uganda martyrs,* for instance, are among the calendar's relatively few laymen. A more important reason: renewed emphasis through the liturgical year on the central mysteries of Christ...
...crew sprang to action. One Australian sailor leaped aboard Evans' stern, and was soon followed by many others. They managed to lash Evans1 196-foot-long stern section to Melbourne long enough for dozens of stranded U.S. sailors to be lifted to the carrier. Scrambling through the unfamiliar ship, the Australian seamen coolly rescued their comrades. Sailors who had leaped from Evans into the water were soon searched out and rescued, some of them by the carrier's helicopter, others by whaleboats...
...listen to nothing but the fan. The results should be encouraging to Mozart buffs. The rats exposed to his music during their compulsory concerts overwhelmingly tuned in on him. The group indoctrinated by Schoenberg split almost evenly between him and Mozart-as did the control group, which was unfamiliar with both composers...
...judges themselves are unfamiliar with the legalities of the welfare system." To Burt W. Griffin, OEO's director of legal services, the center "has helped to build the intellectual foundation for a whole new area of law -poverty...
...once, Harvard had started a race behind, and the Crimson, playing an unfamiliar role, just couldn't catch...