Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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John Holmes will read his poetry at the final Summer School reading Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. The reading which will be held in the Lamont Forum Room, will be preceded by recorded music at 4 p.m., and is free and open to the public...
...jokes that are like verbal mobiles. He begins with the spine of a subject, then hooks thought onto thought; joke onto dangling joke, many of them totally unrelated to the main theme, till the whole structure spins but somehow balances. All the time he is building toward a final statement, which is too much part of the whole to be called a punch line, but puts that particular theme away forever...
...Munich's cathedral 15,000 people heard New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman attack Communism as "a wild beast of the forest," making "this the most dangerous summer since 1939." Climax of the congress came Sunday, when more than a million people streamed for the final Mass into the vast Theresienwiese fair grounds, surrounding a high wooden altar. Direct from Rome they heard a radio message from John XXIII: "You and we perceive with great concern what dark clouds of danger hover over mankind and how heavily the peace of nations is threatened. Therefore let us pray together...
...place on the 800-meter relay team. All he had to do was finish sixth or better in the eight-man field, but no one knew how his stomach would take the long grind. "The more I swim, the more it hurts," he admitted. Coming off the final turn, Farrell poured on his famed finishing sprint, hurt stomach or no, and touched out in fourth place. "I'm very grateful," Farrell said later. "This is the way I wanted to make the team...
...replacements to take over their position. Discovering that the unit is really a demolition team come to blow up the bridge, Scholten cries hysterically: "Why did we have to defend it, then? Five are lying over there who've fought for this bridge." Author Gregor's final irony: after driving the demolition squad away from "our" bridge, Scholten is killed by a fellow German...