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...Church of the Holy Spirit in Salinas, Calif., one Sunday last month, Mrs. Phyllis Edwards, 48, walked to the altar to minister at 8 o'clock Holy Communion. Dressed in a deaconess' dark blue, nunlike robes surmounted by a deacon's stole, Mrs. Edwards calmly intoned the prayers and then distributed the bread and wine of Communion, which had been consecrated by the church's rector at a previous service...
...with a chic matron (Micheline Presle), is cleverly bamboozled into marriage by his blonde secretary (Catherine Deneuve). He divorces her, the better to enjoy her favors when she becomes another man's wife. Brialy, a successful "lay-out artist," jilts his bride (Marie Laforêt) at the altar, leaves for a solo honeymoon m Athens, where he matches wits with a^ vivacious swindler (Françhise Dor-léac, real-life sister of Actress Deneuve), who ultimately becomes his better half...
Ghastly indeed is the beginning of the tale. On Feb. 10, 1306, Bruce fell upon his principal political rival, John Comyn of Badenoch, and stabbed him to death before the altar of a village church. Crowned King at Scone, he promptly sent to warn England's Edward I that "he would defend himself with the longest stick he had." Edward, the master of a nation six times the size of tiny (pop. 400,000) Scotland, disdainfully instructed his legate in Scotland to "burn and slay and raise dragon" in the land. On June 19, at Methven field, the English...
...effective speaker, with an affinity for alliteration; he had preached on "Women, Weddings and Wives," "Red Heads, Dead Heads and No Heads," and the "Kinship of Kourtship and Kissing." On Thanksgiving Eve 1915, Simmons took 15 friends to the top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, built an altar on which he placed an American flag, a Bible and an unsheathed sword, set fire to a crude wooden cross, muttered a few incantations about a "practical fraternity among men," and declared himself Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
...longtime friend, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. As hundreds in the parade knelt in the sunlight, Abernathy intoned: "We come to present our bodies as a living sacrifice. We don't have much to offer, but we do have our bodies, and we lay them on the altar today." Other prayers followed, and when they were over, Cloud turned to his troopers and ordered: "Clear the road completely-move out!" With that, the troopers moved to the sides of the highway, leaving the way to Montgomery wide open...