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Several of the adult picketers carried signs with apocalyptic quotations from William Blake. Others simply had the word "peace" or "pax" on signs hung over their chests or backs. Only a handful of Harvard students and faculty members participated...
...lawns with the new chemicals is: Will they work? Five companies this year are marketing such products, most of them priced between $9 and $10 for a package covering about 2,500 sq. ft.: Scott's Halts, Dow's Crab Grass Killer, Vaughan's Pre-Kill, Pax's Crabgrass and Soil Pest Control, Swift's Rid; others, presumably with names like Stomp, Unconditional Surrender...
...girl with a badly fractured skull. On her grave was the cryptic inscription: LUMENA PAXTE CUM FI. The letters of the inscription were on tiles, and scholars came to the conclusion that they had somehow become misplaced-perhaps by an artisan who could not read-and should have been PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed to have been blood, together with certain symbols (two anchors, three arrows, a palm and a flower or torch), was interpreted by archaeologists as proof that the remains were those of a martyr. Her tender...
SOMETHING OF AN ACHIEVEMENT, by Gwyn Griffin (284 pp.; Holt; $4.95), suggests, as do a great many other contemporary British novels in this, the sahib's foulest hour, that the Pax Britannica was kept by boobs, boors and brutalitarians. British Novelist Gwyn Griffin is a onetime army officer in Africa who showed in By the North Gate (TIME, April 20, 1959), that he can turn his major dislike into minor but flawless literary art. Now he returns to the attack with the story of Cecil Spurgeon, a tired, self-pitying status-keeper in a coastal enclave of empire...
Archbishop Bernard Jan Alfrink, 59, comes from The Netherlands town of Nijkerk. Five years ago he succeeded the late John Cardinal de Jong as Archbishop of Utrecht. The scholarly archbishop has been chief counselor to the pontifical commission for Biblical studies, contributes to scientific publications, heads The Netherlands' "Pax Christi" movement of Roman Catholic laymen. In addition to pleasing the Dutch, his appointment is expected to add an able member to the team of cardinals preparing for the forthcoming Ecumenical Council...