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...blandly: "There is no connection between politics and the arrest of the Assemblymen . . . The arrests will continue." Vice President Kim Sung Soo resigned in protest. The National Assembly voted 96 to 3 to lift martial law. But many Assembly members, afraid to go home, slept in the old Shinto shrine which serves as Assembly chamber. The next day Rhee's new Home Minister. tough Lee Bum Suk, sent a battalion of the South Korean National Police to Pusan...
...months after Pearl Harbor, the parishioners of Brooklyn's St. Rosalia's Roman Catholic Church watched sons and brothers going off to war-and promised each other that, when victory came, they would build a shrine to Mary, Queen of Peace. Under their pastor, Monsignor Angelo R. Cioffi, they dug into pockets to raise the money. By last August, after nine years of planning and giving, St. Rosalia's parishioners had their triumph: dedication of their $2,000,000 Regina Pacis Votive Shrine, a Handsome stone building decorated with mural paintings by Italian artists and fitted...
Buddhas & Serpents. Stonehenge has been credited, at one time or another, to the Phoenicians, Celts, Romans, Sumerians, Druids and early Christians. It has been called a solar calendar, a Buddhist shrine, a temple of snake worshipers, an altar where defeated leaders were sacrificed to the god Woden...
This San Francisco seer doesn't have much faith in Harvard's "de-emphasized" athletic program. "The Crimsons are not going to win many football games or track meets," he opined. All right, Mr. Connolly, will you match a five-spot--payable to the Shrine Hospital Fund--that says Harvard has a better season this fall than Stanford...
Actually, the pictures were fakes, according to the Voice of "Fátima, the Roman Catholic journal published by the shrine at "Fátima. "In the interests of accuracy," it said, the world should know that the pictures were not taken in 1917 at noontime, but in 1921 during "an atmospheric effect at sunset." L'Osservatore got the pictures through Federico Cardinal Tedeschini, who had heard about them from Dr. Joao de Mendonca, a Portuguese government official and member of the reception committee at the shrine's anniversary celebration last year. Mendonca explained that his deceased brother...