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...filled with modern monoliths-a more formal cultural center, a trade center, a hotel, and a Metro station, at an estimated cost of $80 million. One-quarter of the acreage will become a park to set off 16th century St.-Eustache, scene of Molière's baptism and Mirabeau's funeral (when the church was temporarily a revolutionary "temple of agriculture") and where butchers once hung sides of mutton along the exterior wall. President Georges Pompidou will undoubtedly approve the council decision. A museum of contemporary art planned for the renewed area happens...
...Mexico City in which seven engines were destroyed. But the government has not let the Left take the lead in terrorism. In the State of Sinoloa in North Mexico 13 persons, including three women and a child, were killed when soldiers fired into a fiesta crowd celebrating a baptism. The government explained this, as it has similar incidents, as an attempt to stop narcotics traffic...
Even the cockiest intern can lose his nerve the first time he cuts open a live human being. "It went horribly," admits Dr. William Nolen, recalling his own baptism, a routine appendectomy, at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital 17 years ago. "My knot-tying proficiency had melted away. My fingers, greasy with fat, simply would not perform. My ties slipped off the vessels, the sutures snapped in my fingers; at one point I even managed to tie the end of my rubber glove into the wound...
Rice was Merton's boon companion at Columbia University, his godfather for baptism in the Catholic Church, and a lifelong friend. It is nonetheless a fuller, richer portrait of Merton than any available, partly because Trappist censors seriously bowdlerized Merton's own books. The handsomely designed work is full of Rice's kaleidoscopic recollections; tantalizing snatches of Merton's books, letters and poetry, both published and unpublished; pages of photographs; even a few breezy, Picasso-like nudes drawn by Merton shortly before he entered the monastery. Merton the Columbia undergraduate emerges as an accomplished rapscallion, occasionally...
...Dollard is unimpressed with the Lord's baptism-membership concept. Perhaps God is equally unimpressed with Dollard's ticket-to-Heaven concept...