Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Norman St. John-Stevas, 22, is no ordinary Briton. He is not merely "Oxford," nor is he really "Cambridge"; by the end of the year, he will have a bachelor's degree from both. In the London Spectator last week, he turned his double vision on an ancient riddle: just what are the differences between...
Their happiness is brief: confronted with the evidence that Sibylla is his mother, Gregorius.flees in horror. In penance, he chains himself to a rock for 17 years. Then one day, messengers from Rome arrive with the news of a miraculous vision: for his true penitence, Gregorius has been named the worthiest of all God's creatures to sit in St. Peter's chair...
...congregation) left the well-established South Fort Worth Baptist Church (membership: 1,000) to join Trinity Baptist's founders before they had so much as a place to worship. He is glad he came; so is his congregation. Said he last week: "I caught the vision and enthusiasm of these people. I knew they meant it when they said they were building one of the great churches of the South...
...into position to prevent a neck-snapping jolt during takeoff, if some kind of magnetic suits are provided to hold them to the floor when the familiar pull of gravity fades away. Could the weightless pilot, whipping through space at seven miles a second, depend on his sense of vision alone to keep his balance? Maybe. One of the doctors suggests a way to find out: 1) put a congenital deaf-mute (who has never had a normal sense of balance) in a diving suit; 2) submerge him until the buoyancy of water exactly balances gravity; 3) then give...
...shook off Mary Ann's guiding arm. In the office, she pointed and asked: "Isn't there a scale over in that corner?" There was. The doctor tested brown-eyed Mrs. Cerra with colored and lettered charts. She had regained partial vision...