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BARBARA KOSSYK CAROL STAIR Madison...
...paused on the stone stairway. Here, on Sept. 3, 1792, a howling mob of the Revolution had hacked to pieces 114 bishops and priests, thrown their dismembered bodies into the Seine. The cardinal uttered a short prayer for the peace of their souls, then went on up the "stair of the martyrs" and entered the Salle des Actes, smiling and gesturing with slender hands. Before him, four cardinals, 20 archbishops, 90 bishops-most of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in France-rose in silent respect to Achille Cardinal Liénart, Bishop of Lille and, at 73, their...
...Menace. In Batavia, Ill., Nellie Reynolds tumbled down a flight of stairs during a baby-sitting session, collected $146 damages from her employers after she discovered that her four-year-old charge had extracted the tacks from a section of stair carpeting...
...Harvard man with his venerated House system can be just about as solitary as he pleases. But at Radcliffe, where corridors replace stair-wells, where individual rooms replace suites, and where communal bathrooms are the rule, a girl is virtually forced to be sociable...
According to Stair's theory, tektites came from the lost planet too. He thinks that on its surface was light, glassy material that had separated like cream as the heavier metal and rock sank toward the center of the planet. This separation may have happened on the earth too, but water erosion destroyed the glass...