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...late Walter ('10) Beinecke, Bunshaft resolved to create a "treasure box." He erected a 58-ft.-high cube of granite-covered steel trusses and translucent marble set on four steel bearings atop its own Woodbury White granite plaza. Headlined the irreverent Yale Daily News: TOMB CONCEALS DECAYED BOOKS. Students instantly dubbed it "The Waffle," but it is the most frankly dramatic of the new buildings at Yale. In his new library, Bunshaft has made books the monument. First editions are arrayed in a glass tower for all to see-and to use. To keep out damaging direct rays...
...June 26 the church celebrated the feast of the martyr brothers Sts. John and Paul, secretly put to death by order of Julian the Apostate. Their glorious end became public, tradition says, "through the many wonders wrought at their tomb." It will be interesting to see the many wonders which will fructify from the works of these two modern "brothers" in Christ...
...Pope. He renamed John's old friend Amleto Cicognani as the Vatican's Secretary of State, and Monsignor Angelo Dell'Acqua as Substitute Secretary. The new Pope descended to the grotto beneath St. Peter's to pray by the side of his predecessor's tomb. And in the spirit of John's footloose ways, Paul VI left the Vatican the day after his election-to visit Spain's ailing primate, Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel...
Carved on a vast block of rock in the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo are two facing ranks of six shallow pits with larger hollows scooped out at each end. The same design is carved on columns of the temple at Karnak in Egypt, and it appears in early tomb paintings in the valley of the Nile. It is carved in the steps of the Theseum in Athens, and in rock ledges along caravan routes of the ancient world. Today the same pits and hollows are to be found all over Asia and Africa, scratched in the bare earth, carved...
...setting up his company in 1938 (he learned construction techniques as an Aramco laborer), Ben Laden, 49, has completed $500 million in projects, including jetports in Jidda and Medina, a handful of palaces, and miles of superhighways. His greatest thrill was building a new mosque over Mohammed's tomb at Medina. Says Ben Laden: "To me there are only two things in life-work and Islam." ∙Simca, France's third largest automaker (after Renault and Citroën), this week gets a new president: outspoken Georges Héreil, 53. He replaces fiery Henri Pigozzi, who founded...