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White-maned, Yankee-hating Edmund Ruffin watched the signal shot burst over Charleston harbor, seeming to trace in its flame the palmetto emblem of South Carolina. He had left his Virginia plantation, carrying with him a pike appropriated from John Brown's abolitionist band (its Ruffin-inscribed label: "Sample of the favors designed for us by our Northern brethren"), to see his dream of disunion come true. This-4:30 a.m.. April 12, 1861-was his great moment. Edmund Ruffin stepped proudly forward, pulled the lanyard of a columbiad and sent the first of some 600 rebel shells...
...elevation of the Host. In the morning, he went to services in the New England-style Lutheran chapel the Swedes had built at Gaza. On the Sinai border, the Yugoslavs, encamped in an oasis of palms and eucalyptus trees, had carefully arranged golden dates to form the United Nations emblem...
...people, "an island of light" to President Pusey where he first came into contact with the incredible, if slightly pretentious erudition of ... Harvard undergraduates. To Robert Cutler it is the moment when Professor Copeland looked at the coral pig on his watch chain and said, "Is that the emblem of your sublime little club...
...they found for Israel among Russian Jewry. Notwithstanding 40 years' indoctrination that was supposed to have turned them into good, godless Communists, Russian Jews traveled as far as 4,000 miles to see the delegates, swarmed about them in their hotel, paid 50 rubles for an Israeli festival emblem (other delegations' emblems sold for a ruble each), bought up all the tickets for the Israeli singing and dancing performances. "By the end of our tour," says Singer Rena Samsonov, "we were completely exhausted by the feeling of strain communicated by the tense Jewish audiences...
Zurich's broad, winding streets were plastered last week with cryptic blue and white signs-a Swiss artist's stylized version of the Greek letter psi. The ψA sign had been adopted by the city as an emblem to guide 2,000 visiting psychiatrists from 58 nations to their scattered meeting places. Occasion: the Second International Congress for Psychiatry (the first was held in Paris in 1945). Since the theme was "the present status of our knowledge about the group of schizophrenias," Zurich was an appropriate meeting place, for it was here that the late Psychiatrist Paul...