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...once guarded the New World for France, still frowned down on the narrow twisting streets of the Old Town. The habitant women in their dusty-black Sunday clothes still knelt to pray in ancient Chapelle des Augustines. With devout Americans they still trudged the 21 miles to the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre on pilgrimage...
...disease, called onchocercosis, is apparently of African origin. First found in Guatemala, it spread into Chiapas with migrations of coffee pickers; a smaller outbreak in Oaxaca was attributed to pilgrims who had visited a Guatemalan shrine. The Inter-American highway is now opening the remote region for the first time, and epidemiologists fear that the disease will spread into the rest of Mexico. One fact which comforts Mexican researchers: though the disease has spread through the coffee-growing regions, where peons are mostly undernourished, it seldom attacks healthy, well-fed people...
Admiral Ernest J. King, wartime commander of the Pacific Fleet, was accepted into the Al Koran lodge of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in Cleveland...
After the Sunday evening meal, the Union dining hall will serve only graduate students, but it is expected that this traditional Freshman shrine will be returned to the Yardlings in September...
...pledged his administration "to carry forward the underlying principles and policies, foreign and domestic, of Franklin D. Roosevelt." The biggest ovation was for Eleanor Roosevelt when she turned over the Big House, where Roosevelts had lived for some 80 years, to the people of the U.S. as a national shrine...