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...long worried over the mounting number of weapons being brought into airports. In 1972, 1,313 firearms, mainly handguns, were confiscated. Last year that figure jumped to about 5,200. Thirteen explosive devices were found at airports in 1972; in 1975, 156 were discovered. In addition, a sinister array of knives, brass knuckles and clubs were found either on individuals or hidden in luggage, washrooms and potted plants...
...Christmas may get a strong sense of it from an exhibition organized at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome to mark the end of the Holy Year. Entitled "Treasures of Sacred Art," it has been culled from normally inaccessible church collections in Rome and nearby Latium. eluded in brilliant array are coffers, crosses, monstrances, ostensoria, chalices, candlesticks, vestments...
...joins them for a spare meal of an egg, bread, banana and tea, then goes out into the city to work. Age and authority have not changed her; she is at ease these days with Pope and Prime Minister, but she still cleans convent toilets. She has won an array of international honors, including India's Order of the Lotus and the Vatican's first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize, but sees them only as "recognition that the poor are our brothers and sisters, that there are people in the world who need love, who need care...
...other way that platypuses might maintain territories, he says, is with the complicated array of scents that the male secretes from the area around his neck. The scents could be used to mark trees or rocks to warn off other platypuses...
FIRST, THE visual scene opened one's eyes, then the voices opened one's ears, which gave easy access to one's soul. Dressed in an array of African prints the Kuumba singers rocked and swayed, clapped and sang until Memorial Church seemed to move with their rhythm. With shining faces and full voices the choir dramatically presented its theme, "The Light of Unity." The Memorial Church altar, usually an inconspicuous backdrop, complemented the singers' radiant stage presence; it almost seemed to draw out their contagious rhythm and spirit...