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Little was heard of the tunic for centuries, but in 1196 a seamless piece of cloth was discovered inside the altar of the Trier Cathedral's west choir; it was walled up again until Easter 1512, when German Emperor Maximilian demanded that it be shown. What he saw was a simple, loose silk shirt about five feet long. But on closer look, a woven cotton cloth, believed to be the tunic itself, was found enfolded between layers of silk...
...movement or organization has been created. We do not want to become rigid"). But in the view of all five, such a movement is the Church of England's best hope for rekindling religious spirit (only one-tenth of England's 27 million Anglicans attended services last Easter Sunday, the day of top turnout). British workers, explains Strong, see the church as "a financial racket. Churches are empty now, but the Church still has income from investments. If empty churches meant hard times for vicars, then they would soon do something about...
...secret police" shooting arrows into St. Sebastian; a serpent-eyed sister (Pamela Brown) who blames her brother for the death of her fiance; and a dotty old dowager (Bette Davis) who writhes and flops about a cream-puffy bed, smokes cigars and has her morphine served up in toy Easter eggs from Paris. For the lonely professor, there is a lone delight in a strange legacy: the scapegrace's mistress, the only person who knows about the lookalikes, presumably because they make love differently...
...even Rotary's critics and satirists have mellowed in the face of the club's accomplishments. Rotary contributes millions of dollars each year to charity, is the major supporter of the annual Easter Seal drive, and in the last eleven years has given scholarships to more than 1,200 students from 67 countries. A neighborhood club at heart. Rotary would like, as Harold Thomas puts it, to "make the whole world a neighborhood, and bring it even more bridges to friendship." It set up the cultural exchange group that later became UNESCO, settled a 150-year-old boundary...
Clements is now booked well ahead in provincial arenas, hopes to return to Spain and fight as a full-fledged matador by next Easter. Sidney Franklin is convinced that his young charge is going to be great. Says he: "Nobody in Mexico has his style and manner in killing. And only one-Antonio Ordóñez-can match him in Spain...