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...Alexander the Great sacked Samarkand ("Place of Sugars"), a city already centuries old. Rebuilt, Samarkand became one of the central depots on the great Silk Road from Byzantium to China, and flourished as a brilliant seat of Arab civilization, only to be destroyed again by Genghis Khan. Near the end of the 13th century, Marco Polo reported it once more a "very great and eminent city," and 100 years later Tamerlane made it the capital of his empire, which stretched from the Hellespont to the Ganges, and from Siberia to the Persian Gulf...
Later at a press conference, the bishop explained that it was not Harris' "near-Catholic trimmings and trappings" he objected to, but his departure from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. "In the Church of England there is a considerable degree of liberty allowed to the clergy in interpretation of doctrine and in ceremonial practice. We are both a Catholic and a Reformed Church. That means to say that the Church of England is the official and authorized expression of the one Catholic Church in this country. But at the same time, it has been cleansed of the abuses...
Unclipped Wings. Nathanael Saint was seventh in a family of eight children who grew up in Huntingdon Valley near Philadelphia in an atmosphere of deep Puritan piety. Their father, Lawrence Saint, an eminent designer of stained glass (15 of his windows are in the Episcopal Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Washington), took his Christianity straight and Biblical. There was prayer meeting on Wednesdays, two services, plus Sunday school, on Sundays. Says Nate Saint's father: "We didn't encourage the children's friends to come and play on Sunday. I read the Bible and each...
...Dodge Corp. reported that construction-contract awards in 1959's first seven months jumped 11% to $22.5 billion. The new lift in heavy construction comes at an opportune time, just as builders are warning that tighter mortgage money may slow the pace of home starts, now a near record 1.300,000 a year. Overall construction is moving 12% ahead of last year, at an annual rate of $55 billion; builders expect it to rise to at least $57 billion in 1960. Says Chairman Melvin H. Baker of Buffalo's National Gypsum Co. (1958 sales: $163 million): "Seldom...
Died. Bohuslav Martinu, 68, Czech composer and onetime visiting professor of composition at Princeton, who turned out a flood of operas (The Miracle of Our Lady), symphonies (Fantaisies Symphoniques) and chamber music, saw one of his operas (The Marriage) become a U.S. TV hit; near Basel, Switzerland...