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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reader Paul W. Capor [Sept. 10] has a good sense of humor. He sees the oil that has been hitting U.S. beaches because of the accident in the Mexican well as a gift. We Mexicans, however, haven't felt that way about the salt the U.S. has sent us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1979 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

John Paul topped off his Chicago visit with still another Mass, this time in Grant Park, scene of pitched battles between police and anti-Viet Nam War protesters eleven years ago. A crowd of 500,000 transformed it on Friday into something more like the site of a love-in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: It Was Woo-hoo-woo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Flying into New York City Tuesday morning, John Paul got a brief glimpse of sunshine, and his white robe glistened with golden light as he stepped off his plane at 9 a.m. Again a brief airport ceremony with dignitaries was enlivened by the Pope's ability to unstuff a shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: It Was Woo-hoo-woo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Tight police security ? at times the cordons around him were four deep? kept the Pope from one of his favorite activities, working the crowds. But still he pressed the flesh with anyone he could reach, displaying a deft politician's hand that would have shamed Lyndon Johnson. The police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: It Was Woo-hoo-woo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Meanwhile, at Living History Farms, which re-creates early life on three operating farms, the biggest crowd in Iowa history was gathering. By the time the papal Mass began on a 180-acre pasture shortly after 3 p.m., the throng totaled 350,000, more than double the 150,000 that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: It Was Woo-hoo-woo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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