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Pious Legend. For all the veneration that Jerusalem's holy places command, the sacredness of many of them is based more on pious legend than historical proof. The stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa-marking Christ's path to His crucifixion-begin near the site of the Temple in accordance with medieval tradition. Most Biblical scholars, nonetheless, now believe that Jesus' death march began on the other side of the Old City, near the Jaffa Gate. Many of the churches marking the shrines, moreover, have been rebuilt so often that they have tenuous claims...
...Legson Kayira completed a 2,500-mile trek, mostly on foot, from his native Nyasa village to the U.S. consulate at Khartoum, where he asked for and received an opportunity to study in America. Since then he has moved on from Skagit Valley Junior College in Washington State, via the University of Washington, to Cambridge, England. In his autobiography, I Will Try (TIME, April 30, 1965), he told with disarming simplicity how he got there. In this, his first novel, he tells no less appealingly where he began...
...takes only one season for the summer commuter to learn to book plane flights months in advance. The easiest way for Chicago businessmen to reach the luxurious lakeside summer colony of Charlevoix, Mich., is via a 250-mile flight to Traverse City, followed by a 15-minute small-plane hop to the final destination. But what happens when the airline is booked? Those left in the lurch must drive north to Milwaukee, where they catch a ferry to Ludington, Mich., a trip that takes six hours-then drive 150 miles to Charlevoix...
BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 10:30 to noon). The final round of the 96th British Open, live via satellite from the Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake, with everyone gunning for Defending Champion-and U.S. Open Kingpin-Jack Nicklaus...
...Kodak in June was the prime mover in resuming negotiations, which at the end of twelve days resulted in the pact which satisfied both sides. During those days, Moynihan was immersed in what he calls a "complex process"--a process by which he evidently placed drops of oil, via telephone, on a few strategic points of friction...