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After the kingdom's conversion to Christianity in the 4th century, the coronation ceremony was performed on the site of the church of St. Mary of Sion, where Ethiopians believe that the son of Solomon and Sheba deposited the Tablet of Moses. So revered is the church that worshipers kiss its steps before they enter; so sacred are its confines that by Coptic custom no woman has ever been permitted within its enclosure, and few male foreigners have been allowed inside by the priests who devote their lives to protecting its treasures...
...Campbell: "The enormous crowds lining Seoul's sidewalks clapped good-humoredly as rank upon rank of boys and girls marched along the city's main thoroughfares, sturdily swing ing their briefcases and singing patriotic songs. Not far from the presidential pal ace of Kyungmudae (which means man sion of courage and beauty), the students were halted by determined, heavily armed police. The students demanded that Rhee receive a delegation of three or four of their leaders to discuss new elections and to promise no more police intervention on university campuses. When the request was refused, the crowd again...
Robert Presnell's script is a deplorable masterpiece of tears and terrors that in effect resets the Biblical Massacre of the Innocents as a sort of Our Gang Tragedy, and just for good measure throws in what looks like an Alfred Hitchcock ver sion of the Flight into Egypt...
Getting nervous because no date had been set, a Capitol Hill Republican last week telephoned a White House aide to find out when the President was planning to hold his meeting with G.O.P. congressional leaders to discuss the Administration's legislative program for the new ses sion of Congress. The answer: "We don't plan to have a meeting, and we don't want one." Dwight Eisenhower saw no need to talk over his program for the congressional session that convenes this week. Reason: he plans no brand-new programs, no departures from the basics he stressed...
...gestive of romance, adventure, passion: such foundation powders as Pond's Angel Face, Revlon's Love-Pat and Max Fac tor's Creme Puff; such lipsticks as Rubinstein's Red Hellion, Revlon's Fire and Ice, Helen Neushaefer's Torrid and Pink Pas sion; such creams as Max Factor's Cup of Youth and Helena Rubinstein's Tree of Life. It lends mystic significance to a word such as moisturizing and nurtures a euphemistic cant in which reducing becomes slenderizing, dye becomes hair color, and diet becomes menu plan. Its slogans have...