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...time to wander in the cathedral this summer will find continual surprises. More than a thousand kneeling cushions, each in elaborately individualized needlepoint. Stone tributes not just to biblical heroes but to Sören Kierkegaard, David Livingstone, Albert Schweitzer and Jane Addams. Even a carved snake in the choir with a caricatured head of Hitler. A space-age window in which a sliver of a moon rock is encased. On the roof, growling gargoyles, and on the lawn, an oversized gilded bronze statue of Washington astride a horse...
...Yuba City last week as the 15,000 citizens mourned their dead. A week earlier a bus bearing 53 members of the local high school choir and Chaperon Christina Estabrook had ripped through 72 feet of guardrail as it turned onto an exit ramp in Martinez, about 80 miles from Yuba City. The bus plunged 21 1/2 feet to the ground. It landed on its top, wheels still spinning and roof crushed down to the seats...
Blood dripped on scattered sheets of choir music. "I heard someone scream 'Oh my God' from the front of the bus," sobbed Kim Kenyon, a 16-year-old junior whose girl friend was killed in the seat beside him. Added Perry Martin, 18, the choir's chief tenor: "Everything was a tangle of weeping and moaning and of scattered arms and legs." The final toll: 29 dead, including Mrs. Estabrook, whose husband was preceding the bus in his car, and 25 injured, including Driver Evan Prothero...
...people of Yuba City were drawn together-by the ties of tragedy and friendship, by anger at prying reporters (some of whom were thrown off the high school campus and out of several stores) and by good deeds. Within hours of the accident, school officials established a Yuba City Choir Memorial Fund, which quickly collected $10,000 in cash and pledges for another $20,000. Private pilots ferried parents of the injured students, free of charge, to hospitals in Martinez. The Loyal Order of the Moose set up a center that collected 313 pints of blood in eight hours...
...Dutch Reformed church. Catholics are generally enjoying a new freedom to attend Protestant and Jewish services. "In Oklahoma, we got into the habit of going down to a black revival church," says Jim Scott of Our Lady of Malibu parish. "At first we went down for the fantastic choir, but we really began to appreciate all those people praying together. In that group they were really one." Conservative Catholics are ecumenical for quite another reason. They sometimes go to "high Episcopal" Masses in order to enjoy Anglican rites that are now more traditional than their...