Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Chih Hang, Abbot Soong was sealed after death in stone urns, placed one on another. But he did not stay there any five years. After 76 days of a heat wave and the covering urn was removed, Soong was found to be in good condition. But one of the incense sticks that propped up his head had snapped (children playing in the cloister had bumped against the urns), and so now his head rests on his shoulder as if in sleep...
...dead of night, vandals sneaked into a Bridgeport, Conn, cemetery, made off with a marble statue of "General" Tom Thumb (1838-83), whom P. T. Barnum glorified as the most exhibited midget of all time. Swiping the grave marker was quite a feat: the stone Thumb stood atop a 3O-ft. pedestal, weighs...
...major traveling exhibition of its current work-36 tapestries by 18 of the 26 association members. On view last week at Washington's National Housing Center, the handsome exhibition (see color) makes clear the appropriateness of tapestries with modern interiors. Much as the great stone baronial halls of the past needed the warmth and texture of wool, modern interiors tend to be cold and overly machined in appearance. Today's nomads, moving from one apartment to the next, are also likely to appreciate a major wall covering that can be rolled up like a rug, transported easily from...
From its grey stone headquarters at 1 Gorky Street, Moscow, Intourist is run by balding, stocky Vladimir Ankudinov, fiftyish, who has managed to hold onto his job for seven years. Says Ankudinov, with a gold-toothed smile: "I am what you would call a Soviet businessman." He has plenty of business. Intourist runs 18 hotels throughout Russia, has more than 8,000 employees, handles all accommodations, meals, transportation and incidentals for half a million visitors to Russia each year (most of them from the East European countries...
Meanwhile, keeping an agreement with the French government, Writer-Producer-Director Stone had removed the name Ile de France from every part of the ship, repainted the name Olympus on lifeboats, life rings, prow and stern. Promptly the Greek Line, which has a ship called Olympia, threatened suit. More paint. This week, if all goes according to schedule the Ile de France, her three forward compartments flooded with 7,000 tons of Osaka Bay, will aim her four great screws and the new name Claridon into the wide, wide lenses...