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...longest--and many think best--college sports season opens at Watson Rink tonight when the Harvard hockey team faces off against the St. Nicholas Hockey Club of New York. For the records, tonight's contest is only an exhibition, but for the breed of ice addicts it will be the long-awaited debut of the first Crimson powerhouse since Gene Kinasewich graduated four years...
Tweeds & Transistors. As for the Russian people, they savored their longest holiday ever from the rigors of socialist labor: four days. They attended dinners in restaurants and homes and shopped for luxuries especially imported for the occasion, including British tweeds, Italian shoes and Japanese transistor radios. In Moscow, they rose early to find a crisp, sunny autumn day for the anniversary, were soon milling in Red Square wearing their holiday best. Everywhere in the parks and squares, Muscovites danced and sang. At night, as celebrators floated down the Moscow River in barges, searchlights illuminated a giant balloon bearing a portrait...
...canvass for the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam, I got the shortest haircut I have had since high school and my sister took her longest skirt out of mothballs. These were not exactly sacrifices for the cause, but they were concessions, and we half-expected some concessions in return from the voters of Cambridge. We wanted them to listen...
...first discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, the faded parchments of Qumran have provided extraordinary insights into the nature of Judaism at the time when Christianity was born. Now, Israeli Archaeologist Yigael Yadin has announced the discovery of a new scroll. Not only is it the longest so far discovered, but it may well prove to be the most important. Unlike the other parchments, which are either copies of Biblical texts or accounts of the history and practices of the Qumran community, the new scroll is a prophetic message, claiming to speak for God himself, that was clearly...
...most of Orthodoxy's autonomous branches, the meeting could not in itself produce any decision that might lead to union between the two churches. Nonetheless, Pope and Patriarch twice spoke with each other about such common problems as secularization, peace and war for more than an hour-the longest length of time they have had together. Once again, the two churchmen made it clear that they are uncommonly eager for unity...