Word: johnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many dreams of adventure, it began in a college bull session. John Armstrong of suburban Belleville, N.J. used to talk things over with Yves Tommy-Martin, a Fulbright scholar from France, while both were students at Amherst College. They continued to talk of one big adventure before settling down to careers when Armstrong turned up in Paris on his own Fulbright to do research in Chinese literature at the Sorbonne. Soon, they had enlisted two more companions-another Frenchman, Jean Pillu, 25, and another American, Donald Shannon, 28, of Milwaukee. Their ambition: to drive the 8,500 road miles...
...Lebanon, and finally put their cars aboard a boat bound for Port Said. On July 24, Donald sent his sister a letter from Isna, Egypt, saying that he and his companions were ready to cross the Nubian Desert, and adding confidently "Write me in Johannesburg." In Aswan next day, John Armstrong wrote his mother a postcard that said he would soon be in the Sudanese border town of Wadi Haifa. The four bought food and water to last three days and hired a Nubian boy to guide them through the desert...
...hope to be here next year," said Pope John XXIII, 78 this month, as he celebrated the end of his first year on the throne. "But if the Lord should call me, I am ready." The Pope greeted 162 villagers from Sotto il Monte, his birthplace in northern Italy, told the 15,000 gathered in St. Peter's that the year had "passed like a day," then prayed for peace...
...Evil Creator. The manuscript of this so-called Gospel attributed to "Doubting Thomas," the disciple who insisted on verifying Jesus' bodily resurrection by touching his wounds (John 20: 25-28), is dated somewhere between A.D. 350 and A.D. 425. But, say the translators, the original "goes back much earlier. We are dealing here with a translation or an adaptation in Sahidic Coptic of a work the primitive text of which must have been produced in Greek about 140 A.D., and which was based on even more ancient sources...
...Limb. In Denver, Entrepreneurs John Robinson and Vernon Clark were charged by cops with practicing professional tree surgery without a license -and while drunk...