Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost every city in Europe has its white elephant of a cathedral-decaying stone edifices with more maintenance problems than worshipers in the pews. In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, Roman Catholic Bishop Martinus Jansen has come up with a direct, if drastic, solution for his cathedral problem: he has sold it to the wreckers...
Miss Cam was the first to hold the Chair of Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Z. Stone Radcliffe Professor. She taught courses in medieval English history...
...Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr. knew how to get it back fast, but only at the cost of reducing it to ruins, and turning much of Viet Nam's heritage to crumbled stone. So the Skyraiders, wheeling and diving over Hué in support of the allied counterattack, at first used only guns and rockets no larger than 2.5 in. in order to protect the city's buildings and royal tombs and monuments. When after four days the Communists still held more than half the city, heritage was reluctantly sacrificed to necessity and the bombs loosed on the Citadel...
...edge of Gezira Island in the middle of the Nile in Cairo. One by one, twelve cars drew up to the door, and out of each stepped a neatly dressed civilian or high-ranking military officer, accompanied by a second officer and two soldiers. Inside the yellow stone villa, television cameras whirred and flashbulbs popped as the twelve men nodded quietly to friends and relatives, occasionally stopping to shake hands. Thus last week President Gamal Abdel Nasser opened his show trial of the first of 54 former government and military leaders charged with plotting his overthrow in the wake...
...time or another, the Post Office Department has seen fit to immortalize five Chief Justices of the Supreme Court: John Jay, John Marshall, Harlan F. Stone, William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes. Now the P.O. has decided to honor some Associate Justices who were every bit as great as their chiefs. First on the list: Oliver Wendell Holmes, who died in 1935 at the age of 93. Come March, his wise and bearded visage will look out from a new 15? stamp...