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...brief conclave last week bore a striking similarity to the selection of POPE PAUL VI some four decades...
According to Vance, the decision to start the sophomore hurler was nearly last-minute—“my heart was beating when coach Walsh told me,” Brown admitted—but Walsh’s decision bore dividends...
...black dinghy floating in the harbor near the wreck of the trawler. The dinghy, they found, was of a type not sold in New Zealand, though it is commonly used by the French navy. Oxygen tanks used by divers that were washed up on a nearby beach also bore French registration marks. "Why didn't they leave behind a Basque beret, a loaf of bread and a bottle of Beaujolais?" one DGSE spokesman asked...
...fact, this is what Frank and Maisie comes down to: side-of-the-mouth spiritual autobiography. In possibly his most solemn passage, Sheed writes, "Religion as such strikes me as a desperate attempt on the part of mankind to bore itself to death in expiation of some forgotten excitement." Pilgrims wandering to the rhythm of the old soft-shoe, Frank and Maisie dedicated themselves to fighting original boredom as passionately as original sin. Their son, in his own terms, is happily carrying on the family business. --By Melvin Maddocks
...buildup of molten rock and trapped gases that was ultimately caused by the movement of two of the earth's huge tectonic plates (see following story). Similar forces were responsible for the Mexico City earthquake as well as the tremors that perennially shake California. But the eruption also bore an eerie similarity to the 1980 detonation of Washington State's Mount St. Helens, which left an estimated 65 people dead and missing. The initial Nevado del Ruiz blast sent steam and millions of tons of ash into the Andean air, but the debris was followed by almost no lava. About...