Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's government published its annual honors list, elevated several prominent U.S. citizens to its five-year-old Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Among them: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, named to the order's highest rank, Knight of the Grand Cross; Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, made a Commander. Last week Cardinal Spellman also got a U.S. accolade: the George Washington Carver Memorial Institute's Gold Award for 1955, for his "outstanding contribution to the betterment of race relations and human welfare...
John Dillenberger, associate professor of Theology, said last night that some proponents for the addition to Andover Chapel consider Horton's plans to represent merely a modern art version of the standard cross. "But it is more than a cross," Dillenberger said. "At any rate, it was meant to be a crucifix, although it is quite untraditional...
...palsy victim and a brilliant student, "when it is so much easier to work with my mind?" Ellen, another patient, had a slight limp caused by a spinal injury at the age of two. It did not prevent her walking indoors, but she insisted: "I just can't cross the street." And Mr. Juskalian, a paraplegic, kept the hospital in an uproar by being disagreeable to everybody...
After losing to Brown last week, 6 to 1, the Tufts record is a poor 3-8, with the wins coming over second-rate opposition like Holy Cross...
...newest tropical disease is writing about Africa. The most recently infected is Rehna ("Tiny") Cloete (rhymes with booty), who caught the bug on a three-week safari after she and her author-husband Stuart Cloete had completed a ten-month cross-continent trek researching his recent book, The African Giant (TIME, Oct. 3). The tone of The Nylon Safari is prevailingly lighthearted, the pace is readably headlong, and there is notably little spilling of blood or guts. Indeed, the Hemingway-Ruark axis of hairy-chested literary Tarzans may be somewhat miffed at the casual kiss-off Tiny Cloete gives their...