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Since the middle of the 17th century, this illustrated Latin manuscript of the four Gospels has lain in the library. It is surrounded by a Caesar's ransom of rare editions-a first edition of Dante's Inferno, Caxton's Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, a first folio of Shakespeare, one of the three known copies of the wordbook of Handel's Messiah-but it is the most valued. Last week, insured for $3,000,000, the Book of Kells was being readied for exhibition in London's Royal Academy-the first time...
...doctors that his slipped disc will keep him out of action for another three months. With "great reluctance," brother Dwight accepted his resignation from advisory committees on Government organization and inter-American affairs. In London to be a 20th Century-Fox movie version of Cleopatra, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor has lain ill for four weeks-at an "astronomical" cost in lost shooting time to Producer Walter Wanger. With a low, persistent fever, Liz was confined to the London Clinic, where she was under the care of two of Queen Elizabeth II's personal physicians. A semi-medical diagnosis...
Joseph is a hopeless paraplegic. On the day of his betrothal to Mary he was struck by a bolt of lightning, and ever since he has lain paralyzed, sweating and gasping with the effort to say one word, syllable by agonized syllable: "Adonai"-the prophet's word for God. "And when he had finished this entire word he would re main tranquil for an hour or two until the struggle again gripped him and he began once more to open and close his mouth...
...Germain Bazin, chief curator of the Louvre, it had been a most unpleasant year. Week after week the press would speak accusingly of the Louvre's "attics," its "cellars" and its "obscure prisons." In these sealed-off rooms, charged the critics, hundreds of masterpieces had lain "buried" to Frenchmen for years. Bazin protested that no museum has room enough to exhibit all its treasures, but there was no silencing the critics. Cried the indignant weekly Arts magazine: "We want to know our national patrimony...
Michigan Republicans last week felt real power in political muscles that had lain flabby during the eleven years in which Governor G. Mennen Williams has been serving his six terms. Thanks to the state's prolonged case of insolvency (TIME, May 13), Democrat Williams' political hopes for presidential attention were stalled-and even the Democrats knew...