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Outside the Vatican, crowds will wait expectantly, eyes fixed on a spindly stovepipe that juts from a wall of the Sistine hapel. Reason: ballots are burned with damp straw-which makes black smoke-when votes are inconclusive, burned alone -which causes white smoke-after a Pope has been chosen. After the deciding vote, he Pope-elect is asked simply: "Acciptasne -lectionem? [Do you accept the election?]." His solemn answer: "Accepto...
...damp evening last week, 200 policemen roared into the village of Kibi, surrounded the 52-room palace...
...back room of Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium, Averell Harriman dabbed at damp eyes as the roll was called. Result: Hogan 773, Murray 304, Finletter...
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...gimcrack stage tilted tipsily toward the footlights, and gusts of damp winter air surged from the wings. The piano plunked like a loosely strung mandolin. But the audience listened to the big, barrel-chested baritone with the rapt concentration of buffs at the Metropolitan Opera. They stomped lusty approval of arias from Tannhäuser and The Barber of Seville, art songs by Delibes and Debussy, lieder by Karl Loewe and Schubert...