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...Keystone Kops operation, especially at first," says Kevin Merida of the Dallas Morning News. "The military seemed to have no concept of what our role was. The whole first day was devoted to taking us to places where the action was already over. It was like forming a White House pool and then showing them an empty hall and saying, 'This is where the President spoke...
...again the need for a disciplined church that is attentive to official teaching. To an audience of 400,000 in Caracas he issued another in his series of traditionalist condemnations of birth control, abortion, euthanasia and illicit sex. The morning after saying Mass in Maracaibo, he moved on to Merida, where he urged a throng to accept church teachings "with meekness" and not to be "dragged away by ideologies contrary to Catholic dogma...
...pitching prodigy Fernando Valenzuela, 21. In 1981 the chunky lefthander won a World Series victory; National League Rookie of the Year laurels; the Cy Young Award for the league's most outstanding pitcher; and to cap it all, the hand of Linda Margarita Burgos, an elementary schoolteacher from Merida, Mexico. Valenzuela, suited up in a black tuxedo, and Linda, dressed in a $3,000 gown, took their vows in the bride's home town. Valenzuela sneaked into the church by a back entrance to avoid a mob of well-wishers. Outside, many would-be guests were barred from...
...middle of a vast and desolate plain in Mexico, by the side of the long road stretching from Merida to Chichen Itza, stands a lonely, dead tree. Day and night, perched in the dried-out branches, are half a dozen vultures, just waiting for something to happen. You see, Hoving, art collecting is primarily a waiting game. Most of the time, you have to let the play come to you. Face it, a lot of curators are really nothing but creatures of carrion, picking off the leavings of creative artists...
...airport in Merida," says Munoz, "they dumped us all out of the airplane, and then they shooed us away like chickens. I had only $10 in my pocket, so I started out on foot. I walked, I thumbed rides, then I walked some more. None of those rich tourists in their big fast cars would pick me up, just ranch folks in their broken-down trucks or oxcarts...