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...Balmoral. In Scotland's stern Calvinist circles, no one stole food at parties, but no one ate hot food on Sunday; and a widow, entering a theater for the first time in her life, suddenly saw a sign reading TO THE PIT, and raced frantically back to the pavement...
Somewhere, blocks away, the U.N.'s Indians, Swedes and Irish are fighting hard. But on the wide pavement outside the seedy Hotel Leopold II, no human stirs except Moise Tshombe's tough, sharpshooting paracommandos in their red berets, and the grim, seasoned, Belgian-trained Katanga regulars in their steel helmets and jungle camouflage. Fighting and dying on a daily ration of a handful of maize, they dart stealthily from corner to corner, searching grimly for a target. After four days of fighting, the pickings are slim, for their proudest boast is that not a single U.N. soldier...
Searching unsuccessfully for the royal road of the Persian kings, the expedition uncovered the grand shopping street of Sardis. This street, some 50 feet wide with marble pavement and sidewalks, was flanked by mosaicked colonnades, which enabled the citizens to shop or chat out of the sun or rain...
...head them off, began shooting. West Berlin police fired back, wounding a Communist cop. Then, from the darkness above, a body came hurtling down; one of the escapers had leaped for the net, screaming "Freiheit!" (freedom). He missed the net by twelve feet and died on the pavement where he fell...
...Newell Wallbank of St. Bartholomew the Great last week. In nine years since the London Guild Church Act was passed, the church has come alive in the City. Today some City churches have larger congregations five days a week than many a country church sees of a Sunday. Pavement posters and office notice boards attract City workers to concerts and choir practice, discussion groups and short straight services. "I don't often attend actual services," said one office worker last week, "but I sometimes go into a church on my way back from lunch for a sort of peaceful...