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Before the advent of the Data Mailing Services, the information was kept on a number of separate stencil files. Now, much of it has been stored on 16,800 feet of computer tape; by next year, 25,000 additional feet should be compiled...
Yours is a land of ancient culture, the cradle of great religions, the home of a nation that has sought God with relentless desire. Rarely has this longing for God been expressed with words so full of the spirit of Advent as in your sacred books many centuries before Christ: "From the unreal lead me to the real, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to immortality...
...only U.S. Catholic to be surprised as the nation's dioceses prepared for the introduction on Nov. 29, the first Sunday in Advent, of sweeping changes in the Mass. In obedience to decrees of the Vatican Council, U.S. churches are busy making way for a reformed liturgy that is almost half in English, requires wholehearted congregational participation in word and song, and allows for such "Protestant" borrowings as plainness in altars, and hymns by Luther and Wesley...
...visits a year at holiday times. In addition, West Berliners can cross the Wall within 24 hours if there is a family emergency (sickness, death, marriage or childbirth). This is permitted under a hardship clause, which also allows the East zone member of a married couple sundered by the advent of the Wall to emigrate to the West...
...origin. At Woodward's trial last month, a General Atomic scientist testified that it was "99.98% certain" that the tire iron came from Woodward's car, "99.999% certain" that it was used to jimmy the door. A jury quickly found Defendant Woodward guilty as charged. Before the advent of N.A.A. he would almost surely have gone free...