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When the work was completed, church leaders described it as "one of the most historic events in American Christianity." For four days last week 600 delegates and 3,000 observers had threaded their way to & from Cleveland's Public Auditorium through shoulder-high embankments of leftover snow, to found a new organization that will represent non-Roman Catholic Christianity as it has never been represented before...
...summer Sula Valley cattlemen had burned extra candles to the Virgin, and had spoken bluntly to their patron saint. Such measures had once been credited with bringing 100 inches of rain a year, but since January only five inches had fallen. Shoulder-high grass turned brown, and the scrawny, tick-infested cattle fell dead of starvation...
There were reliquaries designed to look like tiny cathedrals, and a portrait plaque made for the tomb of Geoffrey Plantagenet (Count of Anjou and father of England's Henry II), in which the Count glares at death over a shoulder-high shield. Many of the enamels had been intended for use in the Mass and, like the Mass itself, were laden with symbolic meanings. Among the best pieces on show was a crozier from Cluny representing Aaron's rod. It was crozier, blossoming bough, and serpent, all in one. The pure, bright colors, applied to the gold...
When the results were announced (Li: 1,438; Sun Fo: 1,295), assemblymen went wild. They picked up smiling Madame Li, carried her shoulder-high. On the streets, where crowds had listened to the balloting at corner radios, firecrackers popped and crackled in celebration. The cheering throng surged to Li's headquarters, jubilantly hoisted the general aloft. Exulted a delegate: "Very good! We voted against the government...
Collapse of once orderly rows of pamphlets and magazines brought dismay to the Zoological Museum yesterday. Shoulder-high masses of books stretched from end to end of the periodical room, and as time honored dust again settled in place, mournful employees waded through piles of literature, fossils, bones, bugs, ants...