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Mysterious Trenches. An ocean-bottom problem that fascinates all oceanographers is the origin of the deep troughs that are found mostly in the Pacific. The deepest ones, e.g., the Tonga Trench, the Marianas Trench, have narrow V bottoms that are clear of sediment. They are uneasy parts of the earth's crust. Deep-focus earthquakes rumble out of them, and generally volcanoes spout near...
Across the River. The funeral rites began at 2 p.m. in Washington's monumental National Cathedral, the capital's largest church. The hush of mourning, deepest of all silences, was broken when a boys' choir marched in from the north wing, singing...
John Foster Dulles was a missionary for peace in the cause of freedom, in the deepest meaning of the American experiment. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1888 and grew up beside the bluffs of grey Lake Ontario at the family home in Watertown, N.Y. There his father, the Rev. Allen Macy Dulles, pastor of the Watertown Presbyterian Church, brought him up to learn long passages from the Bible by heart, to revel in family choruses of Onward, Christian Soldiers and Work, for the Night Is Coming. His boyhood heroes were Paul Revere and John Paul Jones...
...they stumble along after the German, take turns carrying the child and the box of crucifixes that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession of horrors is almost too much-but not quite. Author Lacour tips his pen with a searching probe of each character's deepest self. The priest, in his own eyes not a very good one, finally catches a glimmer of grace through sacrifice. The German and the Jew, in the only sticky pages of the book, discover the brotherhood of man, and so on through the cast...
Neither side, Munoz held, will be so foolish as to risk imposing its ideological or technological methods on the other in face of the grave dangers involved. "The deepest religious differences have accommodated themselves to coexistence," in the past, he said...