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...novenas reached a peak of popularity during the Depression and World War II; in New Orleans, for example, nearly 30,000 people jammed the streets for Perpetual Help novenas at two adjacent churches. Now Novena Notes' circulation is down from a peak of 600,000 to 50,000, and the number of churches offering Our Sorrowful Mother novenas has dropped in five years from...
Another disappointment was Chris Pardee, who didn't compete in the high jump. Dick Loebl, the team manager, said that Pardee stayed away because he "doesn't want to reach his peak too early." John Thomas won with a piddling leap...
...simple enough: prohibit all private cars from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. from the 35-block, 25-acre heart of the city's shopping center (see map). Shoppers would thus have an "isola pedonale"-a pedestrian island-all to themselves during peak hours save for buses and taxis. All seemed bellissimo when the plan went into effect: children calmly played soccer at the foot of the Spanish steps, where autos once hurtled blithely by; grown-ups ambled wonderingly down the center of the fashionable Via Condotti, window-shopping at their casual ease...
...that the best Columbia team ever had to appear the same year that Harvard reached its peak. The Crimson is 6-1, with a 17-10 win over vaunted C.C.N.Y., and should walts past its other Ivy foes. Saturday's match, the first of the Ivy season, will decide the league crown...
...Union Pacific's trains from Chicago to the West Coast still maintain a tradition of comfort and good service that continues to attract passengers. The Burlington, whose California and Denver Zephyrs used to carry peak loads only in summer, will spend $350,000 this winter jointly with Hertz Corp. to promote Colorado skiing. It has already been so successful that ski-season reservations on its trains must often be made months in advance...