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...weighing approximately 1,492 grams? These questions were debated for three days last week by 200 learned scientists and black-robed scholars of the Roman Catholic Church in the huge, frescoed Hall of the Papal Chancellery in Rome. It was the first International Congress of Studies of the Holy Shroud...
...John Donne had a morbid obsession with death (". . . Never seek to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee") which prompted him to pose in a shroud for the sketch of his own monument, and keep the picture at his bedside until his death wish was fulfilled...
Dusk began to shroud the castle and the city below. In St. Wenceslaus Square, Prague's Communist Mayor Vaclav Vacek was addressing the crowd. Suddenly he spotted Gottwald's familiar Russian Zis limousine speeding into the square between its motorized police escort. "And there they come now on their shiny red motorcycles with the blue headlights!" he shouted. "They are guarding Comrade Gottwald who is bringing us new and joyful tidings...
Hail & Prayers. The funnel moved on, gathering about it an awesome shroud of torrential rain and hail. In Higgins, 15 miles away, only three brick buildings survived undamaged. Flames licked the wreckage. Of the town's 1,250 inhabitants, 45 were dead...
Since Newton, a graduate of the Law School, assumed chare of the case last Wednesday, a shroud of silence has contrasted with the earlier flurry of reports that attended Parkhurst's arrest...