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Double Triangles. Easy Ed Macauley, who at 19 looks like an overgrown altar boy, got a respectful hand from the crowd. But most of the 18,491 spectators were obviously rooting for New York University's white-uniformed Violets, who had won 19 straight, had stayed undefeated longer than any other major college team. They were missing their star set-shot artist, Don Forman, out with an aching back...
...whatever denominational name Christians call themselves, whether they receive the Sacrament standing or kneeling at an altar rail or in their pews, whether they drink wine in a chalice, or grape juice in a paper cup, or drink nothing at all, Christians all over the world next Sunday will be performing the supreme Christian rite-the Holy Communion...
...full 24 hours gold-spectacled merchants, sheep-faced bumpkins from the farmyards, wispy old ladies and hot-eyed, big-bosomed Neapolitan beauties pushed and stampeded through the door of Naples' cathedral, where the Madonna di Pompeii had been raised on an altar surrounded by the reddest roses...
...Sacrificial Altar." The week's sound & fury was touched off by Virginia's portly Governor William Tuck in a loud speech before his General Assembly. The Governor put on his striped trousers and wing collar for the occasion. His double chin quivered as he attacked Harry Truman's civil rights program, (anti-poll tax, antilynching, antidiscrimination, antisegregation) as an "unwarranted assault upon the established customs and traditions of the entire Southland." Too long, he cried, had "the electoral vote of the South been counted . . . even before it was cast. . . . The people of the Southern states have been...
...Amsterdam, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced that it would forthwith equip all its planes with portable altars (including altar stone, crucifix, chalice, missal, altar cloths and a gold and purple chasuble). The innovation, said airline officials, was the result of numerous requests from air traveling priests...