Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...13th century by Jews who hated his hymn singing, is still fresh. Sister Despina says that the chorister-patron saint of Spanish choirboys-never existed, and that the first documented reference to him dates only from 1587. Yet the cathedral of Zaragoza, she notes, has a brightly lit chapel to the young saint and a cross with him upon...
Magnesium Grenades. That was all the help the police needed, and at 4 a.m. last Thursday, 104 hours after the mini-revolt began, they acted. Magnesium grenades were thrown through the chapel windows, temporarily stunning and blinding everyone inside. The outer doors were quietly unlocked, and the lock on the inner door was cut with acetylene torches, a process that took only ten seconds. Fifteen marines burst through, disarming the convicts before they could fire a shot...
...Appleton Chapel...
...Died. Luther H. Hodges, 76, former Governor of North Carolina and Secretary of Commerce; of an apparent heart attack; in Chapel Hill, N.C. A sharecropper's son who worked his way through the University of North Carolina by waiting on tables, Hodges left a career as a textile executive at 52 to help run the Marshall Plan in postwar West Germany. As Governor from 1954 to 1960, he was successful not only in guiding North Carolina through a pe riod of racial tension but also in attracting an impressive influx of industry-an achievement that helped earn...
...appropriate word to describe the 20-acre site. Like a shopping center, there are a number of parts to it. The library and the museum are in separate buildings. Eisenhower's boyhood home has been restored. The former president and his infant first born son are buried in the chapel-like Place of Meditation. In a focal arc, five large Memorial Pylons are dedicated to Eisenhower's parents, the six Eisenhower brothers, members of the armed services, democracy, and the home where the president spent his childhood. And still the Center grows; a large new visitors' reception facility is under...