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...younger boy made for a seat but his older friend pulled him away by the collar of his yellow Lacoste and gestured for the girl to sit; she deferred to an elderly man with a cane. The older boy smiled encouragingly and leaned back against the side of the car, but the girl was too involved with her watch to notice...
...round man on a cane, Dan has lost a hip to arthritis, actually to a childhood of peanut and cotton farming, compounded by adult years operating a belt in a phosphate factory. Still, something visible remains of the athlete, the first baseman who followed Uclesee to the Albany Red Sox and later coached semi-pro teams in Tampa. "My daddy carried me around like I carried Dwight around," says Dan, noting that none of the three sons from his first marriage ever embraced the game. "Oh, but it pleased me when Dwight took it up. 'Baseball, baseball,' his mother liked...
...finally, UHS is the occasional the butt of student jokes. "The story here is that no matter what cold you have, you are going to receive one of two things from UHS: two aspirin or a cane, if you're lucky." says Shannon B. McNulty...
...Vegas, Hibbing sits out in the middle of nowhere, some 60 miles northwest of Duluth. It too is a city of straight streets and flat terrain. It has an MGM lounge (rather more subdued than its Nevada namesake) and a men's store with top hat, gloves and cane outlined in a neon sign (which is, however, seldom lit). Las Vegas may have Wayne Newton and the Golden Nugget, but Hibbing produced Bob Dylan, and it boasts that it has the world's largest open-pit iron mine...
...testimony on record--but consider the source. The words are those of Cuban President Fidel Castro, whose Communist regime has expelled bishops and priests, eliminated church schools, made it difficult for practicing Christians to get government jobs and even discouraged the observance of Christmas because it impeded the sugar- cane harvest. Pronouncements on faith, however, surface regularly in Fidel and Religion: Conversations with Friar Betto, just published in Cuba with Castro's own imprimatur. It is proving to be an instant hit: when the 379-page volume went on sale in Havana bookstores three weeks ago, lines of purchasers stretched...