Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stubby little biplane leveled off at 5,000 ft. over the tawny fields of Burgundy. In the rear cockpit, a Russian parachutist carefully checked his equipment. When he spotted a white chalk cross on the ground below, he stepped off into space. For 20 seconds he fell free. Then his nylon chute blossomed overhead and he began to drift downwind, past his target. Tugging skillfully at his suspension lines, he spilled air from his chute and slipped back toward the cross. He touched down only four yards short of the mark...
...meeting with the traditional peyote ceremony. Into a large, canvas-covered tepee near the home of Howard Poweshiek, leader of the church on the reservation in Iowa, the Indians stepped quietly in single file. It was sundown. Dressed mostly in jeans or slacks and open shirts, the men sat cross-legged on the bare earth, facing a fire. Each helped himself to the peyote buttons that were passed around, and from time to time someone lit up a ceremonial cigarette (Bull Durham tobacco and corn husks). Until 7:30 the next morning, the big tepee was filled with prayers...
Burned Babies. Perrot could even get some idea of their religion. Its rites seem to have centered around decorated pebbles, symmetrically arranged. In the caves, he found cross-marked pebbles laid out in an oval. Pebbles painted with dots and lines were laid out in a crescent. He thinks the Horites believed that the pebbles contained the spirits of their ancestors. (They certainly cared little for the ancestors' bones; they tossed a few loose bones of their dead into disused storage bins.) Their religion must have had at least one grisly feature. The partly burned skeletons of four infants...
Died. Navy Captain William J. ("Gus") Widhelm, 45, whose daring, happy-go-lucky exploits as a World War II dive-bomber squadron commander made him a flying legend, earned him two citations for the Navy Cross; in a training-plane crash; near Corpus Christi, Texas...
...sparkplug of Faulkner's mutiny is an illiterate French corporal, who is drawn in Christlike dimensions and has attracted to himself twelve disciples. The 13 roam the Allied front on leave, even, it is believed, cross no man's land to carry to the Germans the message of peace-on-earth. The corporal, the Christ-figure, is so vague, his powers so unexplained, as to be a symbol without point. But literal lack of point has never bothered Faulkner, nor has the smothering wrap of coincidence. The corporal turns out to be none other than the illegitimate...