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...South America, rose to give a scheduled speech about the Ecumenical Patriarch, then told the delegates in a breaking voice: "Athenagoras is not with us any more. He is with God." The Patriarch's death was especially poignant because the congress was celebrating a "Double Jubilee," Athenagoras' 50th year as a bishop and the 50th anniversary of the American archdiocese. The congress immediately adjourned in mourning, but it had already heard the most important message-a plea from Iakovos for Greek Orthodoxy in the Americas to take on a heroic new spiritual tone...
Israelis hailed the jet's recapture as a military victory-and as an example of how other nations ought to handle skyjacking. Dayan himself was host at a dinner for Levy, a British citizen with a Jewish father and a Christian mother who was celebrating his 50th birthday. Prime Minister Golda Meir later threw a second dinner for all the participants. She kissed Levy and cried, "We love you." Publicly, Mrs. Meir justified the recapture, citing "the terrible significance of submission" to terrorism...
Back in the 1950s, before the telly really took over, all England seemed addicted to a BBC radio program called The Goon Show, which was the making of Actor Peter Sellers, among others. When the Goons got together again to do a special program for the BBC's 50th birthday, Sellers brought four "friends": Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon and Princess Anne. Another royal Goon fan, serving with the navy in the Mediterranean, sent his regrets: "Last night my hair fell out, my knees dropped off, and I turned green with envy at the thought of my father...
...movement. Says one N.O.W. official: "I have heard a woman called Communist, radical, bitchy, everything-and she can take it. But if anyone so much as breathes the word lesbian at her, she goes to pieces." During the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality that marked the 50th anniversary of women's suffrage, the issue of lesbianism burst into the open. Some feminist leaders, warned that the participation of lesbians would overshadow other issues, tried to downplay the controversial subject during the marches and rallies. A quiet, often bitter debate followed; the result was a declaration from N.O.W...
RICHARD NIXON was feeling his oats last week. He was getting 53% approval in the Louis Harris poll, highest in a year. Talking to 1,600 teenagers at the 50th National 4-H Congress in Chicago, and later to the White House Conference on Aging in Washington, he sounded like the man who had pledged to "bring us together" on the morrow of his 1968 election victory. The youngsters applauded his denunciation of "the insidious bigotry called age-ism," which leaves the young to "plod along in apprenticeship or chafe in alienation" and abandons the old to "draw Social Security...