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...archiepiscopal palace on the city heights, the new archbishop took his vows before the Quebec Metropolitan Chapter. Then, changing from robes of violet to robes of white, he proceeded to the nearby Basilica of Notre Dame (the same church in which he had been baptised, confirmed, and ordained) for the ritual of enthronement. With all the solemnity that bespeaks the age-old traditions of the Church, the Apostolic Delegate, Monsignor Ildebrando Antoniutti, bestowed upon him the crosier, symbolic of his office, then led him to the archiepiscopal throne...
...planned an expedition up the Nile in his 15-ft. sloop, another is looking forward to a honeymoon in the Lebanese mountains. Gamal Kodsi has postponed his vacation until winter in the hope of accompanying Egypt's Olympic team to the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Researcher Violet Price, who has scheduled a cruise among the Balearic Islands in a 55-ton ketch, adds this idyllic note: "If times were right and we could choose the ideal vacation for this part of the world, the vote would go for a lazy cruise through the Aegean Islands and perhaps...
...Chief Shakes made him a member of the Tlingit Tribe and renamed him Kitchnahshch (meaning unknown to Governor Gruening). He shipped in dozens of watercolors by WPA artists to brighten the buff walls of the big, old-fashioned governor's mansion, picked a hot desert scene with violet clouds to hang beside his lace-canopied, four-poster...
...centigrade," Menzel and Goldberg pointed out, "But the condition of atoms in the sun's outer atmosphere indicates that temperatures of over 1,000,000 degrees centigrade prevail at some distance from the sun. This and other indirect evidence suggest that there is an unexpectedly large quantity of ultra-violet radiation from the sun's surface...
...cameras and other instruments in V-2 rockets are making it possible to study this ultra-violet sunlight and may reveal information which will entirely change present ideas as to the physical and chemical composition of the solar body...