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Church defilement has lately become an occupational hazard of village vicars; England seems to be in the midst of a mild little revival of black magic. Recently, the Rev. J. L. Head of St. Clements at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, found a sheep's heart stuck with 13 thorns on the grave of a woman believed to have been a witch. On All Souls' Eve, gravestones were overturned and hexes traced on the graveyard of the parish church in Appleton, Berkshire...
Waiters wedged through the crowd trying to serve champagne and French biscuits. Only the sculpture was unmoved by the crush. The outstretched leg of Rodin's Iris was a hazard for every passing guest. Tripped up by Henry Moore's sprawling, 800-lb. King and Queen, a white-jacketed waiter crashed down in bubbly embarrassment. At least one person was served something besides refreshment: at the moment he least expected it, Artist Larry Rivers was handed a subpoena from the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, which claims he violated a contract to join monolithic Marlborough's stable...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration, whose primary interest in the project is the hazard of radiation to space travelers, contributed $182,000 for construction and equipment of the building. The program, which is being run by Harvard and the Massachusetts General hospital, is also supported by the National Institute of Health...
...group of fundamentalist ministers to conduct an evangelistic mission, he ran into discouraging difficulties. His sponsors had trouble raising the $20,000 budget; the owner of the selected tent site refused to rent it for the crusade; the fire commissioner complained that the circus-style tent was a public hazard...
Died. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge, 61, author, anthropologist and a descendant of the Founding Fathers, who devoted his life to the plight of the American Indian, eloquently presenting it first in his 1929 novel, Laughing Boy, then as longtime head of the Association on Indian Affairs, lobbying ceaselessly to win the Indians less fuzzy paternalism and more schools, medical care and opportunity; of pulmonary emphysema; in Albuquerque...