Word: talisman
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...Bros., apparently abandoning its own WarnerScope wide-screen process, announced that it would use Fox's Cinema-Scope. Warner CinemaScopepics now in the works: A Star Is Born (with Judy Garland), Rear Guard (with Guy Madison), Mr. Roberts (with Marlon Brando), Helen of Troy, Scott's The Talisman...
...wife dropped into the chapel at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base last week and listened to a forcefully delivered sermon on that theme. The chaplain retold the rugged Old Testament story of how the Israelites, trusting in the sacred ark of the covenant as a magic talisman, had fought slackly against the Philistines, and of how the Philistines smote 30,000 Israelites by following the sturdy advice of I Samuel 4:9. The chaplain's point: too many rely for help and salvation on religious symbols and make too little personal effort toward faith...
...Shukri Asho, who killed King Abdullah of Jordan last July, had expected to escape under cover of grenades thrown by fellow conspirators, but no grenades were thrown. His fellow conspirators had planned that Asho should be killed by guards' bullets. On his dead body was found an Arab talisman bearing the words: "Kill, thou shalt be safe." In 1942 the Macedonian who attempted to murder Franz von Papen, then Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, was given a contraption (allegedly by Soviet agents) which, he was told, would produce a smoke screen to cover his escape. When the assassin touched...
...Where Is Man?" [TIME, April 11] is so wise-so eminently wise (to paraphrase Quiller-Couch on Newman's Idea of a University) -as to deserve being bound by every college student "for a frontlet on his brow and as a talisman on his writing wrist...
...talisman, it worked very well. Despite the diversity of our route through the 15 countries we visited, we were off schedule only once. The children turned out to be good travelers, resilient and resourceful, standing patiently through 26 customs examinations in 68 days on our way through southeast Asia and India, across a corner of Africa and into Europe, to Scandinavia, London and, via the Queen Elizabeth, New York...