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This announcement was greeted with a hail of criticism, from both alumni and undergraduates. These objectors attacked the whole idea of a Christian church or any other place of worship as being inappropriate for a war memorial. Those killed had made a purely secular sacrifice; they had fought out of a sense of patriotic duty. Only in a very few cases, it was argued, had they felt any religious dedication. Religion, moreover, seemed of little importance in undergraduate life, and many claimed that the relatively small Appleton Chapel was more than adequate for the University's Sunday worshippers...
...began circling Linda's hotel. From each flapped a banner bearing the legend, "Go Home Linda." Tooting trumpets, 30 recruits from Rio's slums marched up waving more "Linda Go Home" signs. Then, from the windows of Baby's suite in an adjoining hotel came a hail of firecrackers and a 20-ft. banner. The message was the same: LINDA GO HOME...
...serves as its pedestal. By day it is a soaring column the color of an old cannon; by night it is a giant, glowing shaft punctuating the Manhattan skyline (see color page). It is the definitive statement of what a skyscraper can be by the architect whom most purists hail as the master of glass-and-steel design: Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 71 (TIME, June...
...first to hail the new federation was the very man whose appeal it was formed to oppose. Egypt's Nasser fired off a congratulatory message to Feisal expressing the hope that the union of Iraq and Jordan would hasten the day of "great unity" -at the same time that his propagandists were denouncing the whole thing as "a new farce" engineered by "the same traditional feudal opportunists who have nothing in common with Arab nationalism and Arab aspiration...
...present seems to be deadened by the drone of Hail Marys and weighted by the sweet stench of stale funeral flowers banked around a seven-day-old corpse. The past, for the mourning family of Stanislaw Machek, is a terrain of lust and violence, seen dimly through the murk of love, greed, self-righteousness and madness. In a brilliantly constructed first novel, Author Richard Bankowsky, 29, leads the mourners at Machek's wake, one by one, back across that dark landscape...