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...Preservation of the 4½% interest rate ceiling on long-term U.S. Government bonds is still an article of faith among liberal Democrats in Congress, but Heller calls the ceiling a "nostalgic" relic, wants Congress to abolish it so as to give the Treasury more flexibility in managing the national debt...
...else, one wonders, would have attained a great reputation as a healer merely by holding a Barua a Soldani, a letter from a king (Denmark's Christian X), to the chest of a young native writhing in agony from a badly fractured leg? As the letter became a relic, stiff with blood and grime, and passed from hand to hand in a cabalistic pouch, it also became "a covenant signed between the Europeans and the Africans -no similar document of this same relationship is likely to be drawn up again." Many writers affect to understand Africa; Author Dinesen accepts...
...Chief Relic." No one knows just when the book was inscribed. The last few pages, which would normally tell the history of such a work, are missing. Some scholars date it from the 6th century, others from the 9th. In any case, in 1006 it was in the church at Kells in the county of Meath. In that year, according to one chronicler, the great manuscript, "the chief relic of the Western world," was stolen. When it was found a couple of months later half buried in the ground, its gold, gem-studded covers were gone...
...faraway fling of the year, a game with Bowling Green State University near Toledo, Ohio. After recoiling at the cost of a four-engined plane, the school settled on a charter from Arctic-Pacific Airlines ($7,700) in a C-46, a tired, twin-engined relic of World...
More than a Dollhouse. In Chartres Cathedral the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared many times and wrought miracles. In 861, three years after the church was destroyed for the first time (by the northern invader Hastings). Charles the Bald donated a treasured relic, the shift of the Virgin (now known as the Sacred Veil). By charging admission to see it, he reasoned, money could be raised for the church's rebuilding. The veil is still there, and Chartres is dedicated to the Virgin. "This church was built for her," wrote Henry Adams, "in this spirit of simpleminded...