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...applause, the Popemobile-a custom-made, bulletproof vehicle-rolled up and down aisles carrying the Pope high over the crowds. At Communion time the multitude adopted a respectful silence. By the time dusk had fallen, John Paul was being serenaded by the audience to the familiar strains of Auld Lang Syne. Michael Goodwillie, an unemployed young man who had waited through the night in the Glasgow park with his pregnant wife Mary, reflected on the unexpected crowd response. "He doesn't hate anyone. He just comes out and says what he believes. He believes in us, so we should...
...Queen Lear leaves the actual running of the company to Auld and his managers, but she participates in all the meetings and describes her role as being the firm's den mother. Says Auld: "She's here to validate the project with customers, vendors and the industry...
...Gates Rubber Co. Two years before he died of leukemia in 1978 at age 75, Lear started a new firm, LearAvia, in Reno, to manufacture a turboprop corporate jet that he had designed. On his deathbed, Lear asked his wife Moya, now 65, and Company President Samuel Auld, 55, to use the proceeds from his estimated $100 million estate to complete work on the Lear...
...project, however, soon ran into headwinds from two of Lear's daughters. They are disputing their father's will, saying that the trustees, Auld and Real Estate Developer Milton Weilenmann "brought undue influence" on a sick man to have the new plane completed. The heiresses declare that the risks of the venture are too great for their mother to use their portion of the inheritance...
...concentration camp in the Philippines, American civilian prisoners and their Japanese captors held a party in 1942 for some departing guards, sharing sukiyaki and singing Auld Lang Syne. "They really liked each other," Prisoner Natalie Crouter wrote in her diary. "The pity of it-that our enemies should tell us this-that prisoners in a prison camp have given them more fun and friendliness than they ever had before. How it lights up the poverty, the barrenness of their past . . ." For one night, she wrote, the Americans and Japanese "were just boys again, sorry for the mess we are mixed...