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...springtime-sunny Sunday in the South, particularly in Georgia, where Sherman's march cut such a vast swath, a widespread (and individually selfish) safari of as many as 500 relic collectors can be found crisscrossing carefully over the once bloodied ground. Each wears earphones connected to a long-handled ground-sweeper disk, powered by transistor batteries, which transmits a constant hum through the earphones. Whenever it finds metal, there is a sudden crescendo to the hum, the signal to dig for an antique that may be anywhere from an inch to 6 ft. down, since little of any value...
...objects of irreplaceable art have been declared casualties. The principal victim: Cimabue's 13th century Crucifix ion, drowned inside the Santa Croce museum, where waters rose more than 14 feet. "It's a corpse, the paint is gone, and it can only be displayed as a relic," said University of Pennsylvania Art Professor Frederick Hartt...
...most Asians, Eisenhower is an anachronism, a relic of the 1950s when the key words of U.S. foreign policy were "alliances of containment" and "massive retaliation." In fact, Eisenhower is widely disliked in Japan, Laos, and Cambodia, the non-Communist nations of Asia whose sympathy will be necessary for peace in Vietnam...
...churches, Mesthene said, will have to accept the feeling of confidence man gets from his new-found mastery of nature. "To see a sense of failure as a condition of religious experience is a historical relic dating from a time when an indifferent nature and a hostile world so over-whelmed men that they gave up thought for consolation...
...cause they were so obvious. Richardson had been an Asst. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Eisenhower as well as the Eisenhower-appointed United States Attorney for Massachusetts. Equally important to Richardson, however, was the Democratic opposition. John Costello, a member of the Executive Council (a tiny relic of Colonial days which reviewed most of the Governor's appointments) proved to be a not very energetic, inarticulate campaigner. In the same election the voters stripped the Executive Council, which had an unsavory reputation, of most of its powers...