Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those Who Love, Stone...
...rainy day in Johnson country, and precisely at 8 a.m. on Election Day the President and Lady Bird arrived at Johnson City's one-story stone Pedernales Electric Cooperative Building to vote. They cast ballots 1 and 2. Then, with the President at the wheel of a white Chrysler station wagon, they led a 20-car caravan of reporters and Secret Service men on a jouncing, 51-mile, four-hour ramble over the Johnson "propity...
...eighth wonder-a remarkable achievement of primitive man. In a new book, Stonehenge Decoded (Doubleday; $5.95), he explains how he turned to a modern computer to unravel the 3,500-year-old mystery of Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge's long-kept secret, says Hawkins, is that its vast stone slabs and archways make up a sophisticated astronomical observatory...
Sacrifices & Pageants. Constructed in several stages by late Stone Age and early Bronze Age men between 1900 B.C. and 1600 B.C., Stonehenge's most prominent features are a 97-ft. ring of 25-ton uprights and horizontal slabs (known as the Sarsen Circle) surrounding five huge trilithons or archways. To build them, primitive Britons had to haul stones weighing as much as 50 tons overland from a quarry 20 miles away. For hundreds of years, archaeologists have probed around and under the structure in a vain attempt to understand what motivated its builders. Charred bones and artifacts convinced some...
...real world." And he links his spiritual adventures with the day-to-day events and people which inspired them--his father's command that he kiss the bloody corpses of the heroes who died for the liberty of Crete, the Irish girl to whom in a cold stone church, he first made love...