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...week's end, De Gaulle and Ike clattered up to Gettysburg in an Army helicopter for a brief visit to the Eisenhower farm and a trip to the adjoining national monument that is a shrine to professional soldiers the world over: the Gettysburg battlefield. From Gettysburg they flew to Camp David for further talk. Just how much progress was made toward ironing out what minor differences still divide the U.S. and France will probably not come clear until President de Gaulle himself plays host to the summit session in Paris...
...sylph-waisted, fairy-tale gown of spun gold embroidered with silver. When Ivan the Terrible broke the Tartar's grip on the Volga, he had the Crown of Kazan fashioned out of gold filigree, every contour of which mirrors the onion-topped domes of the Kremlin's shrine of St. Basil. The Great Hall of St. George in the Grand Kremlin Palace is a massive-pillared, arching vault lit by gilded one-ton chandeliers. The last Czar, Nicholas II, could boast a gilded Easter egg celebrating three centuries (1613-1913) of Romanov rule. It was inlaid with miniature...
...Easter Services. CBS presents Roman Catholic and Protestant services from the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and the National Cathedral in Washington (10 a.m.-12 noon). NBC presents Catholic Mass from St. Peter in Chains Cathedral, Cincinnati (11 a.m.-12 noon). ABC presents Bishop Pike's Easter Meditation...
...well-run funeral for a "beloved" actor or "distinguished" playwright, someone is bound to call the theater a shrine. And so it has been during much of its history. At certain times, it has been a shrine to God, or to the Fates, as the source of meaning in the human drama. Later, it became a shrine mostly to man seeking-vainly-to rule his own destiny...
...News itself. Editor Martin S. Hayden, no Shriner, coolly advised the Shrine to stay out of his newsroom. Fraternal Editor Fuller, said Hayden, was "appointed to that position without prior consultation with the Imperial Potentate of the Shrine, and he will remain in that capacity regardless of imperial edict." In brief, the Shrine could go soak...