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...roof came into being almost as interesting as the works housed beneath it. The original Louvre may go back to the 5th century. Etymologists speculate that the name may come from louverie (a meeting place of wolf hunters), or from a leper colony, or from a Saxon fortress (lower). Still to be seen in the present foundations are remains of the mighty fortress that King Philip Augustus erected on the site about 1190. But the Louvre of today owes its origins to France's great Renaissance prince of princes. Francis I, who on Aug. 2, 1546 gave the royal...
...windswept, heath-covered hilltops of Sardinia stand the remains of more than 6,000 cunningly contrived towers shaped like truncated cones. Built of squared volcanic rock, without mortar, these fortress towers, called nuraghi, range back to the time of ancient Troy, were in use until the culture of the Sards was finally smothered by Roman legions in the 3rd century B.C. Often fire-blackened on top. they may have served for signal fires, funeral pyres or simply strong points of repair for the fierce, feuding warrior clans. In the rubble at the base of the towers Sardinian archeologists have found...
Batista is wary of heavy casualties in moving against these raiders in their mountain fortress, so far plans a "longterm" campaign to keep them surrounded and wear them down when they come into the open. He has also offered $100,000 for the "head of Fidel Castro." But though he must face a nagging stalemate, in winning last week's round Batista cost the rebels heavily in dynamism and morale. A new general-strike attempt will be harder to mount than the foiled try-particularly bucking the prosperity of Cuba's current $2 billion-a-year national income...
Theologically Specific. What do the Lutheran converts find in their new churches? They find, above all. two things still relatively unchanged-liturgy and theology. Martin Luther, a prolific composer, himself handed down the most famous Lutheran hymn: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. Bach is the pride of musical Lutherans, and the tradition continues. Just off the press, with a sellout first edition of 635,000 copies, is a brand-new Service Book and Hymnal more than twelve years in the making, with 602 hymns, many of them...
Marriage, an ancient vaudeville joke has it, "is like a beleaguered fortress; those on the inside are trying to get out, and those on the outside are trying to get in." In her new book, Novelist Martha (The Trouble I've Seen) Gellhorn takes the reader on a skillfully guided tour of the fortress; it is her special merit that she observes the outside as well as the inside (including some rarely seen rooms), with equal sensibility. Two by Two contains four studies of the married state, each taking its title from a vow in the marriage service...