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...matchless stained-glass windows tell the story of His coming. Each panel is a chapter: the annunciation to the Virgin that she is to be the mother of Jesus, the birth in the manger, the glad tidings to the shepherds, the star-guided Magi's visit to King Herod, the presentation of Jesus at the temple, Joseph's dream-warning of Herod's murderous plan, the flight into Egypt, and Herod's massacre of the newborn innocents...
...Putting China's Red masters well up in history's hierarchy of political purgers. Highest reliable estimates for Herod's slaughter of the Innocents, 20,000; Catherine de Medici's 16th Century massacre of the Huguenots, 50,000; France's 18th Century "terror," 30,000; Russia's Red Terror (1918-21), 50,000; Stalin's deliberate starving of Ukrainian peasants, 5,000,000, and Hitler's extermination of Germany's Jews (over twelve years...
After almost three months of digging near the biblical city of Jericho, Professor James B. Pritchard of the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa. announced last week that he had probably found the winter palace of Herod the Great. Prematurely "discovered" last year by archaeologists who had really dug up a nearby Roman fortress, the imposing building predates the birth of Christ...
During his long reign, Herod went up to Jericho to escape the damp, chilly winters of Jerusalem. Across the Jordan at Shuneh, King Abdullah still has a winter palace. But Professor Pritchard's discoveries suggest that not even modern royalty lives in comparable luxury...
...Herod will have his new headquarters in London, work with a twelve-member Defense Production Board. Last week, following his appointment, he went into the hospital for a minor operation, said: "The NATO industrial structure, properly integrated with our own, can arrive at a potential far in excess of anything that Russia and its satellites, including China, are capable of. The problem is to organize the contributions to that potential...