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Upstaged? Having heard none of the drawing-room rumors, most of the pres. played up the wedding as an elopement, hinted darkly that Charlotte had beaten her sister to the altar by two weeks so as not to be upstaged. The truth of the matter was that Niarchos and Charlotte were simply waiting for his divorce-which finally came through (in Juarez, Mexico) a few days before the wedding...
...tons overland from a quarry 20 miles away. For hundreds of years, archaeologists have probed around and under the structure in a vain attempt to understand what motivated its builders. Charred bones and artifacts convinced some that it had been a mortuary, a crematorium or even a sacrificial altar. The awesome architecture and isolated setting also suggested to others that it had been the scene of religious rites and pageants...
...midst of the Negro's struggle for equality, in the emerging forms of technological society, in the arts and sciences of the secular world. "In the time of the death of God, we have a place to be," he says. "It is not before an altar; it is in the world, in the city, with both the needy neighbor and the enemy...
...Cathedral. As the Pope entered the great grey church, 3,500 invited guests welcomed him with a roof-raising hosanna of cheers and applause, a response never heard before in the cathedral's staid confines. Moist-eyed at the greeting, Paul prayed briefly before the high altar; a chorus intoned the traditional Tu Es Petrus (Thou Art Peter). In response to Francis Cardinal Spellman's welcome, Paul reiterated the purpose of his mission and asked "for your prayerful support of our message of peace." Then, he came out a side door of the cathedral to walk along...
...recite a simple Low Mass, to which the congregation responded rousingly in English. In keeping with the liturgical reforms of the Vatican Council, lessons were read by laymen, and twelve children-the only ones to receive Communion from the Pope that day-brought the bread and wine to the altar to be consecrated...