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...basic feeling is that we're losing a person who can be replaced but never duplicated," says Cecil Austin...
...Tell the story! Tell the story!" worshipers cry out as the Rev. Cecil L. Murray preaches beneath the spectacular murals and stained glass of Los Angeles' First African Methodist Episcopal Church. The exclamations from the standing-room-only congregation of 2,000 come with each oratorical high note. It is a hymn of health, bespeaking the prosperity of the city's oldest (1872) black congregation, where every service is a vibrant demonstration of fervor and passion...
This year has offered plenty of thrills, some of them actually on the field. Fans who swore they would never forgive players for the lockout delay of Opening Day have since misplaced their rancor and delighted in the annual spectacle of stars born and reborn. Cecil Fielder, exiled to Japan last year, signs with Detroit and threatens to become the first American Leaguer to bop 50 home runs since Mantle and Maris in '61. Dave Justice, toiling in Triple A, gets promoted to the haggard Atlanta Braves in mid-May and hits 28 home runs: out of nowhere, into orbit...
...Information Agency and the Rockefeller Foundation, paid to have her thoughts chiseled on benches and, in four languages (not always perfectly translated), on the marble plaques with which the pavilion floor is newly paved. Electronics mavens set them moving across giant LED screens on the walls. Not since Cecil B. DeMille caused lightning to peck the Ten Commandments onto Charlton Heston's tablets had American culture spent so much on lettering. All this to tell the world it should not overeat. Tipicamente americano, one might think...
...bill that would have permitted legal abortions only if a woman's life was endangered, if an incest victim was under 18, or if the rape was $ reported to the police within seven days (when a victim would not yet know whether she was pregnant). Pro-life Governor Cecil Andrus vetoed the bill, calling the seven-day provision punitive and "without compassion." He added, "On the eighth day, ((the woman)) ceases to be the victim and becomes a criminal...