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...hill of Champel, just outside the city of Geneva, a man was made ready for burning. A crown of straw and leaves sprinkled with sulphur was placed on his head, and a thick rope was wound around his neck. He was chained to a stake and a pile of fresh wood lay at his feet. A book of his own authorship, called The Restoration of Christianity, was bound to his arm. When the executioner waved the torch before his face, he cried out: "O Jesus. Son of the Eternal God, have pity on me." Then the faggots were...
Resplendent in black and orange beanies, Princeton's freshman class traditionally marches off for an annual duel of rope with the sophomores. These tugs-of-war are usually hot, noisy jumbles with a good deal of strain on either side; unless the rope breaks, one group is clearly victorious. Between Harvard and Princeton there are now similar stresses. Academically, Princeton has attained many of the educational goals the new administration here is pulling toward. Socially, Harvard represents to Princeton students undergraduate life as it should be. These strains between the schools constitute a quiet tugging on ideas and customs...
Inside Job. In Clairvaux, France, after six missing convicts had been hunted all over the countryside for four days, they were found in a prison garret weaving a long rope for climbing over the outer wall...
...corporate structure. He bought a plate and pipe plant in the burgeoning Delaware Valley (TIME, June 8), a pig iron and iron ore company in Pennsylvania. Last year he bought Newark's 112-year-old John A. Roebling's Sons Co., primarily a maker of wire rope, and an engineering firm. These acquisitions not only gave C.F. & I. diversification, but also made it a well-integrated organization...
Then, before the image of the Virgin in a little chapel, Clare exchanged her bright dress for a rough wool robe, her jeweled belt for a knotted rope, her high headdress for a black veil. Francis himself cropped off her golden hair...