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...ford, they stopped and built a bridge. Other Papua New Guineans braved mountain passes 11,000 ft. above sea level to make their long journey. Why had so many thousands trekked so far to stand in ankle-deep mud on a rain-soaked field in the town of Mount Hagen? One tribesman, in a three-cornered hat made from human hair, had a compellingly simple answer: "He brings the Good Spirit...
Warring tribesmen had called a tem porary truce in honor of the Pontiff's visit. At Mount Hagen, from an altar covered with a thatched roof and lavishly decorated with hibiscus, orchids, bougainvillea and battle shields, the Pope made a plea for permanent peace to the crowd of almost 130,000. Then he gave Communion to warriors who glistened with pig fat and wore head dresses of black hawk feathers and crimson and golden plumes from the bird of paradise...
...they were there for keeps. When you're a private eye, you want things to stay put." Later, in Yma Dream, Thomas Meehan offers a Carrollian nightmare in which the Misses Chaplin, Sumac, Gardner, Gabor, et al., and the Messrs. Eban, Ehrenburg, Betti, etc., are introduced to Miss Hagen, the actress: "Uta, Yma; Uta, Ava; Uta, Oona; Uta, Ona; Uta, Ida; Uta, Ugo; Uta, Abba; Uta, Ilya...
...observed: "I have a much higher oath. I could not bring myself to the position of handling all those aircraft under the stresses I was being subjected to, knowing that I was affecting hundreds of lives. I had a moral obligation." Picketing at New York's J.F.K. Airport, Pat Hagen, 36, said firmly: "Some of us may go to jail. I don't think I'd be normal if I wasn't frightened, but I'm not intimidated. This union is tight, almost like a family." Walking beside him was his own family, Wife Diane and three children...
Sputnik I, a tiny dot of light moving across the autumn sky, did what nothing else had done for nearly 20 years: it scared Washington. The people who knew the implications, like Astronomer John Hagen, head of Project Vanguard, America's own unborn space probe, stayed up all night linking a hasty network of aerials to catch the faint beeps of the intruder that mocked the presumed U.S. technological superiority. Power and politics were never again the same in the capital. Sputnik signaled a new superpower on the prowl. Space, for the moment, was the area of contention...