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...remembered at all, as a bright, devout girl and the perennial class valedictorian. In 1946, when her family left war-torn Manila for the U.S., the 13-year-old Filipina with bobbed hair enrolled in the Ravenhill Academy, a Catholic girls' school in Philadelphia, and later in the Notre Dame Convent school in New York City. Cory's four college years passed with scarcely a trace at the College of Mount St. Vincent, a small Catholic women's college in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The self-contained student occasionally entertained her classmates with Filipino dances but otherwise kept...
...NOTEBOOK:The Crimson enters its "end of the season" tomorrow night at Blodgett against Notre Dame. The Crimson lost 11-10 to the Fighting Irish last year....Elizondo pulled a groin muscle in the first game on Friday night and had to sit out the next three contests. He hopes to be back in action tomorrow so he can face his brother, who is a freshman on the N.D. squad....The Harvard "B" team played for most of the B.C. game...
Across the nation, other conflicts have been widening the rift between conservatives and liberals. In one long-running dispute, two radical West Virginia sisters, Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey of the Notre Dame de Namur order, have refused to disavow a newspaper ad they signed in 1984 contending that there are various legitimate Catholic views on abortion. Rome hoped the ad signers would back down gracefully, but Ferraro and Hussey, and perhaps others, insist on a showdown that could end in Vatican-ordered expulsions...
...Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who has been leading the major anti-Mafia crusade and who takes personal affront at the damage done by the Mob to the image of his fellow law-abiding Italian Americans. Declares G. Robert Blakey, a Notre Dame Law School professor who drafted the 1970 RICO law now being used so effectively against organized crime: "It's the twilight of the Mob. It's not dark yet for them, but the sun is going down." Insists John L. Hogan, chief of the FBI's New York office...
Foust's prayers went unanswered, though, and a host of other religious-affiliated football teams took Notre Dame's place...