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...modernity of America even while preserving its deep-seated humanity." At the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, he greeted a crowd of more than 3,000 colorfully garbed Indians and Eskimos, using seven native languages ranging from Algonquin and Micmac to Mohawk and a passable Inuit (Eskimo) dialect. In the tiny Newfoundland community of Flatrock (pop. 869), John Paul blessed local codfishing boats from a seaside platform, then radioed, "Good fishing, safe passage and God's blessing" to the fishermen...
...moves was to introduce the designer shop?an enclave where the works of only one designer would be shown. The first such shop, opened in 1968, was for Michel and Chantal Faure of St.-Tropez, then barely known even in France. Bloomingdale's sold hundreds of maxicoats under their MicMac label. The Faures now have 500 other clients, among them some of Bloomingdale's biggest competitors: Saks, Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor...
Orphaned as a baby, she was adopted by a Micmac Indian couple-a mechanic and his proofreader wife-and raised in Wakefield, Mass. Her summers were spent in a trailer on the shores of Sebago Lake, Me. It was there as a teenager, wandering alone through the forest, that she began to compose. She taught herself to play the guitar "all backwards," inventing her own finger patterns and "32 different tunings, which account for the strange flavor of my music." With the aid of a Government loan, she entered the University of Massachusetts, studied Oriental philosophy and elementary education...
Last week, Commander John Caldecott Littler sat in a naval courtroom at Halifax, an empty scabbard at his side, his sword lying crosswise on a table before the president of the court. As a result of last summer's collision between his destroyer Micmac and the freighter Yarmouth County (TIME, July 28), half a dozen charges had been brought against him. The most serious: he had hazarded his ship...
Almost to a man, officers and seamen of the Micmac stood by their short, wiry skipper. The fog into which he had raced at 26 knots, they said, had seemed like a mere wisp. Littler had used radar for eyes, and for once radar had proved to be blind. Radarmen said the fog might have caused an extremely rare phenomenon, shooting the radar waves upward so that a nearby target would be undetected. Pleaded Defense Counsel Roland Ritchie: "Is this man to be a martyr to this triumph of nature over science...