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...Hamlin, running with a severe cold, hung on grimly for ninth place, and Bob Knapp and Jack Benjamin displaced Dartmouth competitors by taking 10th and 11th. Was Hildreth exhibited the determination that drove the entire team yesterday by putting on a desperate closing sprint to snatch 12th place away from Indian Dud Hallagan after the meet had already been decided...
...varsity's other entries were Ed Hildreth, eight; Bob Knapp, ninth; John Benjamin, 11th; Jim Bonnar, 12th; Gerry Webb, 17th; John Evans, 19th; and Don Kirkland, 21st...
...since the 11th century, when its owner, Macbeth, murdered King Duncan in his sleep, had there been such anguish at stately Glamis Castle in the chilly hills of Scotland. A fire broke out in an uninhabited wing, was extinguished by the local fire department before it engulfed the cozy apartments where Queen Elizabeth once romped, Princess Margaret was born, and the Queen Mother's family have lived for some 600 years. The Earl of Strathmore, the castle's present guardian, tried to brave the flames to rescue his Labrador puppy, then thought better...
...first anniversary of his Fifth Republic rolled around last week, France's Charles de Gaulle was vacationing in the south at the 11th century abbey of La Celle in Provence. It was either a characteristic bit of lonely audacity on his part or a gathering of strength for the battle ahead, for before President De Gaulle lay the most serious crisis yet to face his regime...
...where Jesus may actually have been born is the center and model of numberless Nativity scenes all over the world. Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox or sectarian, there are crèches today almost everywhere there are Christians. There are Nativities as sumptuous as the presepio (manger) in Rome's 11th century Church of Ara Coeli (Altar of Heaven) on Capitoline Hill, with its Christ child-legendarily carved by St. Luke himself-so bedecked with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls and gold that its form is barely discernible and the surplus treasure has to be kept in a safe behind the altar...