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WOODS HOLE, Mass.--Explorers visiting the Titanic 12,500 feet underwater in a tiny submarine named Alvin, fixed a 20-pound bronze plaque to the luxury liner's stern in memory of the 1,513 people who died after the ship struck an iceberg...
...thought the stern was an appropriate place since that's where most died and it was the last part of the ship to go under," expedition leader Robert Ballard said in a ship-to-shore call from the Atlantis II research ship about 400 miles off Newfoundland...
...four golden days and gaudy nights, she was the still point of a turning, kaleidoscopic world. Immovable, she gazed upon the revelry with her forthright, rather stern expression. While not exactly a wallflower at her own birthday party, she appeared slightly aloof, distant. What's the big fuss? she might have been thinking. The question is understandable: after 100 years there is little the old girl has not seen before. But as an immigrant herself, she is perhaps even more sensitive to the curious ways of her adopted country, silently indulgent of good old American exuberance, excess and, yes, glitz...
...Whose stern, impassioned stress...
...committee is unlikely, however, to alter the words of Charles Wesley, the 18th century patriarch of Methodist hymnody, even though some of his most durable lines lapse into military similes. Still to be determined is whether the new edition will retain the stern admonition of Charles' brother John, the founding ancestor of Methodism, which prefaces the current collection of hymns: "Sing them exactly as they are printed here, without altering or (a) mending them...