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...suburbs and beyond. The Pope was expected at 3:30 p.m., but the people came as early as 10 a.m. to find a place by the sidewalk, huddled close to the yellow nylon cord strung between bright baby-blue barrels marking the route of the motorcade. It was a damp morning. The weary buildings belonged to the gray sky. But the street was proud with flags. Children held their own yellow-and-white papal banners-made the night before out of a glossy-stock insert from the Sunday Boston Globe. The HQ Company 181 of the National Guard...
...looking at a site and declaring that it had capabilities. His was a romantic vision, sweeping away the last vestiges of formalism in broad pictorial vistas of lawn, woods and streams. In his work, Continental influences were finally replaced by a kind of landscaping thoroughly in harmony with the damp English climate and the contour of the land...
...mist was still rising from the damp field near Frederick, Colo. Not the most popular hour for a wedding, but certainly the most congenial time for ballooning in the early morning breezes. After solemnly repeating their vows, Diane Baumbach, 39, a secretary, and Jerry Weiman, 33, an amusement park employee, clambered into the bridal balloon, which was decked with a rope of carnations, satin bows and dangling tin cans. Touching down an hour later, the newlyweds celebrated with champagne while onlookers recited the balloon prayer, beginning: "The winds have welcomed you with softness...
...heat of summer was mellow and produced sweet scents which lay in the air so damp and rich you could almost taste them. Bees buzzed in the clover. Far away from the fields the chug of an ancient steam-powered threshing machine could be faintly heard. Birds rustled under the tin porch of the roof...
...confrontation was a militant follow-up to a mass rally at the weapons plant. On Saturday, more than 10,000 demonstrators, three times more than the organizers expected, assembled in damp, chilly weather to sing, hear speeches, and demand that the plant be shut down or converted to non-military...