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...next 27 laps were what the crowd had come to see. Around and around the 2½-mile Goodwood circuit, with its six corners and dangerous, S-shaped chicane, he drove with awesome speed. Relentlessly, he closed the gap on Hill: from 17th, he moved up to 15th, then 13th, 11th and 9th. He saluted as he passed other cars and waved to Mechanic Robinson in the pits. "Stirling is driving incredibly," reported the track announcer from his vantage point in a tower. "He's taking the corners faster than ever before." In a Lola, Britain's John...
...SUPREME SACRED CONGREGATION OF THE HOLY OFFICE. "In Rome," says an old Vatican saw,"fear goes by the name of the Holy Office." Founded in the 13th century to combat heresy, the Holy Office ran the Inquisition, still edits the Index of Forbidden Books, preserves Catholic dogma from error, sets the terms of marriage for Catholics who wed non-Catholics. Operating under security rules that would do credit to the CIA, the Holy Office keeps its files under lock and key forever; anyone who spills its secrets is subject to automatic excommunication, revocable only by the Pope himself...
...Parry, seemed to be trying to say something. Among the posters on the wall were an announcement that "Young Americans for Feudalism" would sponsor a speech entitled "Will public education destroy private initiative" and a sign "Homans saves" (for the uninitiated, Homans wrote a touching panegyric about the 13th century English peasant--400 pages worth--75 of which were devoted to measurements of the peasant's plow...
...memorandums protesting his innocence to English M.P.s, granted press interviews, even got a tape recording of his plea on TV. Since he was last restored to custody, in 1960, Alfie has fought for his liberty before the high est courts in the land. Last week, after dismissal of his 13th and probably final appeal, all England waited for his next escape. He had already notified Lord Justice Sellers: "I am not going to re main in prison. It would be very hard for me to leave again. But I assure you I am going to." Locked in a Lavatory. Alfie...
...Forward." Cambridge was started in the early 13th century when some Oxford scholars fled their violent town-gown riots and settled in the fens 53 miles north of London. Beginning in 1284 with Peterhouse, now the smallest college (240 undergraduates), Cambridge has grown to 21 colleges-including rich, intellectual Kings, athletic Jesus and Emmanuel, social (and biggest: more than 800) Trinity, plus Girton and Newnham for the 666 women undergraduates that Cantabs complain...