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...gentleman, purportedly with a crewcut and perhaps even a VFW, has consecrated his entire property to the glory of God. At least 30 small trees, not to mention the big ones, are strung with lights; a large manger scene graces his front lawn; his garage lit up like a chapel; and his house is the temple itself, supporting the Star of Bethlehem, mechanical of course, proclaiming its message to the world. Most people, including L.S., label the display "garish" or even "obscene," but I, as a member of the heathens to whom it is directed, find it absolutely enchanting. With...
...Pope, before whom presidents and kings have knelt and offered obeisance, suddenly fell to his own knees last week and kissed the feet of a Greek Orthodox religious leader, Metropolitan Meliton of Chalcedon. During ceremonies at the Sistine Chapel in Rome, the gray-bearded Metropolitan had announced that representatives of 250 million Orthodox Christians were preparing for theological dialogue with leaders of the world's 650 million Roman Catholics, which could lay the ground for reunification. The great schism between the two bodies dates back to 1054, when the churches of Pope Leo IX and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Michael...
Married. Henry Luce III, 50, director of corporate planning for Time Inc. and president of the Henry Luce Foundation, and Mrs. Nancy Bryan Cassiday, 45, daughter of a Montana rancher; he for the third time, she for the second; in the chapel of Princeton Theological Seminary, of which Luce is a trustee...
...Banking Heir Alexander Andreadis, 30. After a one-month acquaintance and a week-long engagement, the couple had come to be wed in the Greek seaside town of Glyphada. While a score of family members -including Stepmother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her son John -crowded together in the tiny chapel of Aiksonis, an exquisite recreation of a Byzantine monastery, Christina and Alexander repeated the vows of the Greek Orthodox Church, made the traditional three trips around the altar, and were pronounced man and wife. Said John afterward: "Gosh, it was hot in there...
...fast-order nuptials left both friends and relatives of the newlyweds slightly stunned. "I was still on my honeymoon when I got the call to come home," revealed the groom's older brother George, who had been married in the same chapel just twelve days earlier. "Yes, it did catch me by surprise," confessed Alexander's father, Stratis Andreadis. "But then that's life. It's filled with surprises...