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...search for thieves who took $54,000 worth of gems and precious stones from the University Museum over the Fourth of July holiday spread through the entire United States this week...
...attacks on the First Amendment by certain members of the Congress should arouse apprehension in every responsible American. Let's not tamper with our most precious possession amid the emotional swirl of a revival meeting...
...raised." Evangelist Billy Graham condemned the ruling as "another step toward secularism." A conference of 120 Protestant Episcopal clergymen from Long Island churches adopted a resolution saying: "The ultimate effect of this decision may be to nullify and threaten with destruction the American people's long-continued and precious religious tradition of reliance upon Divine Providence...
...hotel, run since the Duchess' death by her old and Rosaesque friend, Edith Jeffrey, never fully recovered from World War II, when a German bomb wrecked the front of the four-story building. Rosa, who refused to take shelter, was pulled out of the wreckage, but her precious stocks of champagne were gravely depleted. "Don't ever die," the Duchess of Jermyn Street told a friend when she recovered. "I've just been right up to the gates of heaven and 'ell, and they're both bloody." The fabled food and demented dialogue were never...
...question most asked was, Is there any hope for humanity?' I very dutifully said 'yes-'" Golding's credentials for being asked such a monumental query-and for answering it-rest on one accomplishment: his Lord of the Flies, a grim parable that holds out precious little hope for humanity, and is the most influential novel among U.S. undergraduates since Salinger's Catcher...