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...week, and in each his constituency is strong. Humphrey and McGovern, the principal contenders, were looking farther down the calendar, to Oregon on May 23 and, more important, to California on June 6. California, with its 271 delegate votes, winner take all, had become the Democrats' new political grail. Victory there might be enough to propel either McGovern or Humphrey to the nomination...
...Holy Grail. This conspicuous piety also inspired a large collection of relics, including the mummified corpse of one of the Holy Innocents slain by King Herod, fragments of nails used in the Crucifixion, and the chalice from which Christ supposedly drank at the Last Supper...
Elusive Fragment. Suddenly, Scott exclaimed: "Guess what we just found!" His prize was a rock made up of large crystals; to scientists his description indicated that it had once been molten and had cooled slowly, probably far below the surface. "The Holy Grail," proclaimed NASA Geochemist Robin Brett, who, like Scott, immediately concluded that the specimen could well be an elusive fragment of the moon's original crust. The crystalline rock, the first large one of its kind found by astronauts, may well give scientists a new slant on the early history of the 4.6 billion-year-old moon...
...away, over the mountains," the magician told him. "I was 15 when it was totaled. They was droppin' dead in the streets for years." "Take me to the city," Glen said. But the magician had other business, so just like Prince Valiant on a quest for the Holy Grail, Glen set out for the city...
...American visitor, aghast at such wiggling disrespect, remonstrated to a retired Royal Navy commander. This very model of Britain's Establishment explained: "Our flag's not the Holy Grail; it's only a bit of cloth. In the services, when we've done with it, we put it to polishing boots or brass...