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...Park. In Bakersfield, Calif., racing after a line drive in the 13th inning of a California League baseball game, Modesto's Centerfielder Harry Mayo jammed his arm through the outfield fence, was unable to shake it loose, watched helplessly as the opposing team scored the winning...
...sacked Samarkand ("Place of Sugars"), a city already centuries old. Rebuilt, Samarkand became one of the central depots on the great Silk Road from Byzantium to China, and flourished as a brilliant seat of Arab civilization, only to be destroyed again by Genghis Khan. Near the end of the 13th century, Marco Polo reported it once more a "very great and eminent city," and 100 years later Tamerlane made it the capital of his empire, which stretched from the Hellespont to the Ganges, and from Siberia to the Persian Gulf...
...Romanesque-Gothic city of Trier, on the Moselle River near the Luxembourg border, thousands of pilgrims crowded to look at a tunic which many believed to be the one Christ wore. Whether "The Robe" (as readers of Lloyd Douglas' bestseller know it) is authentic or not, the 13th Holy Tunic pilgrimage is Roman Catholicism's biggest pilgrimage of this year...
...North, where everything has to be moved in during the brief (four-to 16-week) shipping season or hauled in expensively by air freight. A housewife in a remote R.C.M.P. station on Baffin Island once watched the midwinter supply plane safely parachute twelve packets to the ground; the 13th smashed heavily when the parachute failed to open. Said she to her husband: "What do you bet that was my china...
Last week 33 of the company's drivers and five of its female guides returned to work after completing the first course at Kamakura's 13th century Zen temple, Engakuji. For five days they rose at 4:30 a.m., cleaned their own rooms and swept the temple grounds, and meditated. Anyone who found his mind wandering was supposed to unclasp his hands as a signal, whereupon a waiting monk gave him three sharp thwacks with a stick. Twice a day Chief Abbot Sogen Asahina, 59, lectured them. "When you are in your bus, seated at the wheel...