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Died. Colonel Glover S. Johns Jr., 64, commanding officer of the U.S. troops who liberated Saint-L6 after six long weeks of desperate fighting following their D-day landing at Omaha Beach; of a heart attack; in Austin, Texas. A Virginia Military Institute graduate, Colonel Johns wrote The Clay Pigeons of Saint-Lõ, which was an account of his World War II experiences. Perhaps his best-known military exploit came at the beginning of the Berlin crisis in 1961, when he successfully led a reinforcement convoy into the barricaded city...
What do Dixon, Boise, Saint Johns, Mission, Westminster, Shirkieville, Floresville and Clio have in common? If, understandably, the light does not dawn, try this: Laurinburg, Walters, Rumford, Mitchell, Everett, Doland and Pocantico Hills. In case the riddle is still not solved, two more names should give it away: Plains and Grand Rapids...
...Gothic cathedral, faithful worshipers waited devoutly for the city's periodic miracle to occur: in early May, as on his feast day in September, the hardened blood of San Gennaro is said to liquefy inside the sealed glass vial in which it has been preserved since the saint's 4th century martyrdom. This May, however, to the dismay and alarm of the worshipers, the blood of Naples' patron saint refused to move on schedule. According to tradition, this failure occurs only when disaster is imminent. That disaster might have been the earthquake that struck Northern Italy last...
Given decent underpinnings, tomorrow may yet take care of itself. What Novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote three decades ago must remain the moral force behind all truly prophetic workers: "As for the future, your task is not to foresee, but to enable it." Stefan Kanfer
Pain is much more readily conveyed by art than ecstasy, presumably because it is more tactile, and the santeros lost no opportunities to stress it. Saint Acacius, an early Christian warrior-martyr, is shown crucified in Mexican military costume, flanked by a V-shaped row of contemporary soldiers. The gaunt, hacked Christs drip blood by the pint, their rib cages and muscles have a flayed pathos that transcends the crudeness of carving and drawing; and in some pieces, like the articulated figure of the Standing Christ, with rawhide-hinged elbows, the imagery of pain acquires an immense expressive force...