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...devotional exercise in Watertown took place under a Massachusetts law that went into effect in February, requiring teachers to invite students to say prayers if they wanted to. Last week the state's highest court declared the law unconstitutional. During its brief life, students seemed confused or embarrassed, and results were mixed. A Plymouth sixth-grader prayed for release of the hostages in Iran. A Scituate pupil prayed for a volleyball victory. A Jewish girl said she could not lead because "all our prayers are in Hebrew, and I don't know Hebrew." Most children chose the Lord...
...admitting in testimony before a Senate committee that on three occasions he had already agreed to waive the CIA's rule against contracts with missionaries. There can be "unique circumstances," Turner said, in which clergymen are "the only means available" to operate "in a situation of the highest urgency and national importance...
...Bobby Hackett added another chapter to their longstanding rivalry. As in most of their 500 freestyle duels, Goodell pulled away at the 300-yd, mark to touch in an NCAA record time of 4:16.43. Hackett notched second in 4:19.41. UCLA wracked up the meet's second-highest point total in a single event, scoring 35 points (Cal scored 40 points in the 200 breast two days later). In the other record-shattering event, the Golden Bears astonished the Cleveland crowd in perhaps the meet's most outstanding performance. Cal's 400 medley relay squad of Peter Rocca, Graham...
Woody Allen probably enjoyed this movie, and well he should have--after all, imitation is the highest form of flattery. But Allen is accomplished, and succeeds at wearing the multifarious hats of director and writer much better than Brickman. His collaborator has the jokes, the ideas and the talents to be a major movie-maker. But right now, Brickman is a stand-up comedian with an audience that laughs at every third joke...
...named Lowell, Emerson, Longfellow and Holmes thrashed out the idea with several others over oysters, steak and Burgundy at the Parker House in Boston. Their aim was a truly American magazine that would "concentrate the efforts of the best writers upon literature and politics, under the light of the highest morals." They succeeded admirably. In the 123 years since that founding dinner, the Atlantic Monthly has been a bastion of Yankee rectitude and high literary purpose...