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Outside Washington, the movement was back to normal. There were parties: in Chicago, the Anti-Superstition Society held its customary Friday the 13th blast. There were crimes: young Sinatra's kidnaping got the biggest headlines, but more in the spirit of the season were the two gunmen who came into the Alpine State Bank in Rockford, III., in Santa Claus costumes, locked the employees in a vault and made off with $36,000. Finally, there was Christmas acoming; in Boston, live reindeer pranced on the Common, not far from a creche with a sign that was a symbol...
...play is in a 13th century leper colony and the surrounding town, and the community uses the lepers as scapegoats for its many ills. The play climaxes with the actual immolation of the innocent lepers by the townspeople...
...group will perform Haydn's Symphony No. 44, known as the "Mourning Symphony," and will give the first local performance of Mendelssohn's Symphony No.1 (actually his 13th...
...From the name of its 13th century founder, Robert de Sorbon...
...expert, Couelle dabbled in architecture as a young man. In 1925 he designed a "13th century" chateau at Castellaras on the slopes of the Maritime Alps above Cannes for a New York stockbroker who wanted a proper setting for his medieval art collection. Couelle quit the profession and founded his own "Center of Research in Natural Structure." In 17 years he took out more than 100 patents for new structural materials-but built nothing. Then five years ago, he took Paris Banker Pierre Beckhardt for a drive to show him "a mistake I made when I was young"-the stockbroker...