Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blood, vengeance and silence is the ancient law of the lawless Mafia through out Sicily and southern Italy. One day last week, a witness in court broke the Mafia's law. For the benefit of seven solemn judges sitting in an old stone courthouse overlooking the blue Tyrrhenian Sea, an ignorant peasant of Calabria and a former member of the organization told all that he knew. "I know they have sworn to kill me," he cried, "but I don't care. Justice will punish me for what I have done, and justice will punish them as well...
...Naval Aide Captain Evan P. Aurand, Ike will relax at Marine-guarded, 92-acre Coaster's Harbor Island, a secluded U.S. Navy installation (home of the Naval War College and a naval training station) hard by the lush Rhode Island summer colony, will stay in the twelve-room stone-and-brick quarters of the base commander. Prime assets in Ike's eyes: an adjacent naval air station, a convenient Navy base equipped with first-rate communications and hospital facilities, ready access to a fine golf course at nearby Newport Country Club...
...raise funds for a memorial worthy of a President. In time he wants to collect "several hundred dollars" (he now has $22) which he intends to turn over to a historical association so that some day James A. Garfield, 20th President of the U.S., will get "a real stone like other Presidents have...
When a curious Englishman dug into a promising mound by the Tigris 111 years ago, the ruins of the great King's palace came to light. Little remained of the pomp and magnificence, the power and the glory but some artful slabs of stone that tapestried the walls of the great palace. A dozen of the slabs, presented to the Brooklyn Museum by Art Collector and Philanthropist Hagop Kevorkian, now make their contribution to the thesis that though civilizations crumble, art endures...
Delphi was once one of the spiritual centers of the Western world. In this rocky glen beneath Mount Parnassus, 100 miles northwest of Athens, stood the sacred stone called Omphalos-the navel of the earth, where two eagles started by Zeus from opposite edges of creation had met. Close to the great temple of Apollo, which housed the storied oracle and its fume-drugged priestess, each city-state of ancient Greece maintained its own temple. Last week the Greek government announced plans to turn Delphi into a modern center for the spiritual gathering of nations, invited the 15 nations comprising...