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...PILGRIM AT SEA by Par Lagerkvist. 116 pages. Random House...
...Land, the Patriarch suggested that the trip be turned into a "summit conference" of the world's Christian leaders. The Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity responded by sending Father Pierre Duprey to Istanbul with a letter for Athenagoras explaining that Paul was going as a pilgrim to pray at Christian shrines, but also expressing the Pope's willingness to meet the Patriarch and establish a friendship...
...repair the damaged Alliance, Johnson hopes to hold bilateral talks in Washington next year with Erhard, Douglas-Home and De Gaulle. But the French are already beginning to hint that since De Gaulle was just in the U.S., Johnson ought to visit Paris-presumably as a pilgrim to the Delphic shrine...
...terrific roar, and the line vanished from sight behind a spouting column of black dust and smoke." So wrote T. E. Lawrence, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, of his World War I dynamiting raids on the Hejaz Railway, the 782-mile "pilgrim express" whose single track linked Damascus with the Islamic holy city of Medina. Lawrence of Arabia reduced most of the line to a snarl of sprung steel and splintered ties. Nearly half a century of desert winds and systematic depredation have done the rest. Bedouins ransacked the abandoned stations, pried loose wooden ties for cooking fires. In Medina...
...trip to Plymouth the following Sunday will take in The Adams Mansion, Quincy; Daniel Webster's Home, Marshfield; The Reconstructed Pilgrim Settlement; Mayflower II; and the Plymouth Museum. The seven hour excursion will leave at 9 a.m. Tickets are $6 and available at Matthews...