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PAUL'S NEW BALDACHIN AND HIGH ALTAR . . . WHICH STANDS IN FRONT OF SITE OF JESUS CHAPEL. YOUR CAPTION, "MODEL OF AMERICAN MEMORIAL CHAPEL," IS MISLEADING...
...TIME'S caption was taken from the London Times' special book, Britain's Homage to 28,000 American Dead. Said a spokesman for the Times: "The cap tion should have made clear that the American Memorial Chapel is directly behind the new high altar." For a view from within the Chapel...
Before the open, thatched voodoo altar, a hundred black friends crowded to greet him. With practiced authority, he poured rum libations and muttered Creole incantations, then genially beat drums and rattled gourds, joined in the shuffling and shimmying around the sacred poteau (post). As the dancing grew more boisterous, women screamed, thrashed, moaned, kicked, bounced bonelessly and collapsed -"possessed" by the loa (god) of the night. Though no loa "mounted" him, Doc Reser danced, drummed and drank happily till dawn...
From the nave, González built steps to the altar, a massive table of bricks. High in the apse, stark against the black salt, he set a 20-ft. cross made of thick, wooden poles. Last week, in preparation for the Christmas service, the miners were putting a finishing touch on their church: a 2,200-ft. tunnel to the mountain slope, which will provide a reassuring pinpoint of daylight for nervous visitors...
Last month, the rainy season over, Dr. Ruz got a grant from Mexico's retiring President Miguel Aleman, and hurried back to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,where he pitched camp in the jungle near Palenque. With Assistant César Saenz he descended the 59 steps to the altar room. Carefully the diggers drilled a hole in the side of the stone block. As Dr. Ruz suspected, it was hollow. Next morning the men came back with truck jacks, wedged them under the protruding edges of the slab that topped the altar. All day and all night they worked...