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...name is Popie Jopie./ I happily travel 'round,/ And always when I arrive/ I spontaneously kiss the ground . . ." So runs last week's fifth- most-popular song on Holland's hit parade. The mild piece of satire contains a punster's slap at Pope John Paul II: popie jopie is a Dutch expression meaning obnoxious. The song is but one indication of the hostility that will greet the Pontiff when he arrives in the Netherlands on Saturday for a four-day visit. More disturbing are the threats of violence. Dutch authorities have mobilized 12,000 police for what will...
FIRST NOVICE 1 RADCLIFFE (bow Julia Holland 2, Beth Steinhorn; 3, Martha Rodgers; 4, Donna Marcin; 5, Kim Brown; 6, Carolyn Greis; 7, Jenny Honig; stroke Susan Forter coxswain Margaret Liu) 2 Brown 3 Northeastern...
...long time, Schuller confesses, he harbored doubts about his own self- worth. Born in Iowa to a devout, hardscrabble farm family, he resolved early on to be a preacher. After seven years of study at Hope College and Western Theological Seminary, both in Holland, Mich., he was ordained in the Reformed Church in America in 1950. Five years later he went to Garden Grove, Calif., to set up a new ministry. Schuller's fledgling show-biz instincts led him to begin preaching from the roof of a rented drive-in theater's concession stand. Within four years he had attracted...
...youngest brother Eddie, the current flash of Springs Valley High, resembles him too. "The same mannerisms, the same temper--no, temperament," says Coach Gary Holland, whose first year at Springs Valley was Larry's last. "I was getting on Eddie the other day, and he was so upset he decided to put one in left-handed from the right side of the basket. We all just shook our heads." Last month, when the N.B.A. All-Stars were weekending in Indianapolis, Bird returned to the Springs Valley gymnasium, where his mural looks down like a chapel Madonna. He recollects, "I hadn...
...mousse and exotic wild mushrooms in between. The selections reflected those of stylish restaurants around the country. Caterers proudly described their offerings as light, pretty, fresh, American and, above all, Californian. Almost conspiratorially, they whispered of such unsimple fare as French truffles, Caspian caviar and roe-trimmed scallops from Holland...