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...swath through battlefield and boudoir. The 14-year-old bride thought only of venerating church, husband and home. On April 11, 1774, as arranged by two of France's first families, Gilbert Motier de La Fayette married Adrienne d'Ayen. The bride had barely left the altar when she was forced to begin a lifelong struggle to preserve her marriage to the soldier who became a hero of the American Revolution, a prime mover of the French Revolution, and a roving gallant who collected mistresses like medals...
...high-school chemistry whiz will "sacrifice himself on the altar of chemistry" and take the humanities course which least taxes his underdeveloped side; the literary 'Cliffie enrolls in the least scientific natural science--"and does badly in it to protect her femininity...
...LIFE Building these next few weeks may feast their eyes on a majestic sight: a full-color photographic reproduction (one-third scale) of Michelangelo's great frescoes in the Sistine Chapel at Rome. The Sistine ceiling depicts the Creation, the Fall of Man and the Flood; an altar wall shows the Last Judgment...
...flickering candlelight of Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran last week, a bald, stocky American lay prostrate before the altar and was ordained a priest in the long, ancient ceremony of the Roman Catholic Church. At 53, J. Garvan...
...Lionel Hampton, a friend of the new cardinal since 1948. Musician Hampton, who kissed Cardinal Ritter's ring just after the formal papal announcement of his appointment, had made a special trip with a group of Catholics from Indianapolis, Ritter's former diocese. A onetime Catho lic altar boy who now belongs to no church but considers himself "a good-will ambassador of God," Hampton explained: "Cardinal Ritter's work for integration and in the educational field has given our courts real incentive to help the cause of integration. Before, I thought the world was going into...