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...About 200 yards away, in front of the International Sportsmen's Club, Stevenson staggered slightly, grabbed his companion's arm, and said, "I feel faint." Then he collapsed. Mrs. Tree cried to the club's doorman: "Quick, come! Could you come at once and help?" She knelt over Stevenson and tried to revive him by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. An ambulance arrived, but by the time it reached St. George's Hospital, Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 65, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was dead of a heart attack...
...rebellion, and finally the first Prime Minister of Kenya. It might have been those eight years in a damp jail cell that made him creak a bit as he dropped to his knees. But that only made the student body cheer and whistle all the louder when Jomo Kenyatta knelt to become a Doctor of Laws. Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania and chancellor of newly founded East African University in Kampala, placed his own tasseled cap on Jomo's head to confer the university's first honorary degree. "Do we call you 'doctor' now?" a friend...
...stop and stand where you are." King asked Cloud if it was all right to "have some of the great religious leaders of our nation lead us in prayer." When permission was granted, King motioned to his longtime friend, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. As hundreds in the parade knelt in the sunlight, Abernathy intoned: "We come to present our bodies as a living sacrifice. We don't have much to offer, but we do have our bodies, and we lay them on the altar today." Other prayers followed, and when they were over, Cloud turned to his troopers...
...People marched, 1500-2000 of them, marched down Highway 80, across the bridge. At the other-side of the bridge were 200 state troopers, 200 possemen, about 1000 white people. The major of the state troopers made an announcement that they should turn around; the people refused. They knelt to the ground in a prayerful manner. Then the state troopers fired tear gas at them and began to beat them. I was hit in the head. People went back to the church. There are about 2000-3000 in the church. The posse is coming down to the church. People...
Indian sculptors were expected to identify with their art in a mastered state of trance. The image would then be the result of the sculptor's ecstasy: his trance guided his chisel. All this seemed strange to Western man-unless he happened to recall that Fra Angelico knelt in prayer before he could begin his lustrous panels...