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During one of the aboveground blasts, 2,000 marines crouched in 6-ft. trenches within sight of ground zero. In a matter of minutes after the fireball disappeared, some 1,400 were being helicoptered in to seize the atomized battlefield, theoretically blasted clean of enemy troops. For the 13th shot, the Army's Task Force Razor this week was poised to ride out the explosion in the most exposed surface position to date: in Patton tanks, spread 50 yds. apart, some 3,100 yds. from ground zero, and in new M59 armored personnel carriers 3,900 yds. from ground...
...noggins had dropped back; a Staten Island, N.Y. schoolteacher named William Welsh was striding easily in the lead. Close on the pace, a scant 100 yards back, came Eino Pulkkinen, a smooth-running Finn, and Nick Costes, a Natick, Mass, schoolteacher who finished ninth last year. Almost unnoticed, in 13th place was Hideo Hamamura, 26, a light (132 lbs.) little Japanese clerk. Last time he had run himself out in the early stages, and finished sixth. Now he was taking it easy...
...says Father Daly, "up would pop something important." In a 12th century Bible, they found the musical notations of a choir master, "all of great value to students of musical history." In one of the many copies of Galen's works, they found that marginal notes of a 13th century physician offered innumerable clues to the medical practice of his day. It soon became obvious that precious little could be skipped without first being thoroughly examined. Now, with funds from the Knights of Columbus, Daly and Donnelly have eight electric cameras going at the Vatican, as well...
Spirit & Substance. The University of Bologna has much strength to offer, both in spirit and scholarly substance. Although its exact origins are lost in the mists of 11th century history, during the 13th century Bologna attracted as many as 10,000 students a year to study canon and civil law, rhetoric and composition. Organized into 35 separate "Nations," foreign and Italian students hired their own professors, elected their rectors and reigned supreme on all nonacademic matters. Later, branching out in the arts and sciences, Bologna over the centuries mothered some of Christendom's greatest intellectuals, e.g., Dante, Petrarch, Copernicus...
...quite capable of making long trips through the most beautiful countryside without even seeing a thing." A laudatory essay in the current Art News seems to show that Mathieu paints as he drives-as much to be seen as to see. To paint an abstraction of the 13th-century Battle of Bouvines (in which one of Mathieu's forebears had a part, of course) he dressed up in black silk pants and jacket, a white helmet, and greaves fastened to his shins with white cross-straps. Then he called in some admiring friends to watch the show...