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...almost as raw and hard as they went in. Blue-cheeked children huddle inside the windowless, dirt-floored, one-room hut to escape the biting mountain wind. Within are a bed, two chairs, and a four-inch figure of the Infant Jesus on a homemade altar; magazine pictures of bathing beauties, futbol players and stern-faced priests are tacked indiscriminately around the walls. The house has no water or sanitary facilities; the nearest public bath is six miles away, but Sabino and his wife have not visited it this year. The only sign of civilization that the second biggest...
...western hemisphere." The six skeletons which Mexican Archaeologist Alberto Ruz Luhillier found there last summer (TIME, July 7) had almost surely been offered up to an ancient Indian deity. But Dr. Ruz had a hunch that the sacrificial stone, encrusted with Mayan hieroglyphics, might be more than a great altar. Before he could investigate further, money ran out and the rains came...
...globe of light shining from the ungainly green-and-yellow hilltop house which broods over the main street. He knows, along with those of his neighbors who have seen it, homeward bound from a church supper or Saturday-night movie, that Mme. Wanda Landowska is at her devotions: her altar, the harpsichord...
...Richard Daunton-Fear, arrived and began an energetic campaign to restore the parish churches. Last week, after four years of fundraising, St. George's Church, newly named a "Chapel of Unity," was rededicated. It is now a spruce Georgian structure with arched windows and a fine Jacobean altar rail...
...Bodily Assumption in Blue). At the summit of his elongated Madonna is the head of his wife, Gala, gazing heavenward; her body is being reconstructed in a sunburst of softly colored atomic corpuscles. The body is still transparent and through it, Christ can be seen floating above an altar in a crystal cathedral. At the base of the altar lap the waters of Port Lligat, and rising out of them are huge rhinoceros horns...