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...several farms. Some peasants took him in; others went to the police. After his brother Luis went into Havana to seek a hiding place for the escapee, a bone-weary Betancourt finally slipped back into the city and took refuge in the San Francisco church and convent. There two Franciscan friars agreed, the government charged later, "to hide him, in order later to take him clandestinely out of the country." But government snoopers had got word that Betancourt might try to hide in a Havana church. They set up watches and, in a search of churches, found his hiding place...
...Gene Littler needed only a par five on the 535-yd. 18th to tie Art Wall for the title; he hooked his second shot into the water, wound up with a double-bogey seven. Of course, there have been days when the 18th played easier; a San Franciscan named Mat Palacio once hit a drive in the general direction of China and muttered, "Only God can save that one." Whereupon the waves rolled back and the ball caromed off a convenient rock straight onto the fairway. "Thank you, God," sighed Palacio...
...FLETCHER BENTON, 34, sees mobile art as the way of the future. "Kineticists are space-age artists," says the San Franciscan, and points to the small, spiky steel ball called Explorer I, the U.S.'s first orbital satellite, as an example of esthetic motion. "There's no reason to believe a living room could not be a kinetic experience," he says. "On a dark, rainy day, the walls would turn bright and cheery. We're the pioneers, but think of the artists growing up today. They will know about computers, programming and electronics. Think of what they...
...brown-robed Franciscan friar" who was directing traffic was no amateur. Before joining the order, Brother Patrick O'Leary, O.F.M. was for seven years one of "New York's finest...
...unlighted intersections throughout the blacked-out area, countless volunteers?many of them college students ?took over the job of directing traffic. (In Manhattan, the most prominent surrogate cops were a brown-robed Franciscan friar and an elderly boulevardier in a dinner jacket.) Acting on their own, men and youths patrolled neighborhood stores to prevent looting...