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...leather scrolls which the Bedouins offered for sale looked interesting to the monks of the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of St. Mark in Jerusalem. A couple of goatherds had found eight of the scrolls, wrapped in cloth and hidden in urns, in a cave near the Dead Sea. The monks bought four scrolls* and last February Archbishop Mar Athanasius Yeshue Samuel brought them to the U.S. for study and identification...
...Wanda Hendrix) living in turn-of-the-century New England with a stern husband (Claude Rains) old enough to be her father. The pumpkin which gets her away from it all is a primitive talking-machine and a handful of Caruso recordings which she keeps hidden in a hillside cave for solitary recitals. Her prince charming is a rich city slicker (Macdonald Carey) who whisks her off to a nearby metropolis for an innocent, giddy evening of champagne and waltzes...
...book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today." She had been thinking about the project a long time: "Plato once said that it is the duty of every philosopher to go down into a cave and shape his thoughts. I've been down in the cave. Now, I'm coming...
Although the Alps were far from the loftiest of mountains, they were the handiest for Europeans, and they made up in beauty what they lacked in sheer mass. Each year there was news of cave-ins, slips and deaths. But the danger seemed only to increase the fascination and the number of climbers. This summer, a record 100,000 enthusiasts (v. 66,000 last season) checked in at Alpine mountain cabins, equipped with ropes, poles and ice axes, for what turned out to be one of the most disastrous years in the sport's history...
...mountain hotel atop Petersberg near Bonn, not far from the cave where Siegfried bathed in dragon's blood, the proconsuls of the three Western powers met to turn a historic leaf: they ended West Germany's military government. Henceforth, the land which Allied armies conquered would be under civilian rule...