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...CRUCIFIX. Looks well above a bedstead--or the guillotine...
...black-suited group lined up on Arlington street behind a wooden Crucifix and a large painting of the Virgin Mary and at 3:30 began their silent march across the Common...
Buried Treasure. In Paris, police arrested Thief Roger Lhomel, shipped him off to the hospital when he announced that he had swallowed his loot: a gold bracelet, a wedding ring, a gold watch band, a religious medal, a three-inch wooden crucifix...
...only issue before the jury in Kansas City, Mo. was that of prison or death. Burly U.S. Attorney Edward L. Scheufler demanded death, and started calling witnesses to spell out the crime in squalid detail. A nun's face was pale as she sat with her crucifix in her lap and told of being tricked into releasing Bobby Greenlease from school to go to his "sick mother." Who had fooled her? Sister Morand hesitated, looked around, half rose and pointed at Mrs. Heady. Bonnie Heady faced her accuser impersonally. Carl Hall studied his shoes...
...wind-scoured top of Mt. Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary planted a crucifix, he told a reporter last week.* The small fiber cross had been given to the expedition's leader, Sir John Hunt, by "an English Roman Catholic father," he said, though "actually none of the Everest team was a Catholic ... It was in a small envelope about half the usual size. When we reached the summit, I remembered the crucifix and stuffed the whole thing, envelope and all, in the snow alongside Tenzing's [Buddhist] offering...