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The sun finally broke through next day -and so did the penitent Americans. In the morning, U.S. golfers swept all four Scotch foursomes (in which the two men on each team take turns hitting the ball) and led by the score of 7-6. By midafternoon, they had added three...
So popular is the part that it is booked solid for the next 40 years by applicants from as far away as Madagascar. The list includes gamblers, adulterers, ex-convicts -all seeking peace of mind. With it, they get an awful lot of exercise. The procession, chuckles Father Scuitti, "is...
Whistler's Mother (correct title: Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1, Portrait of the Painter's Mother) was en route to Atlanta, to appear as an official gesture of sympathy by the French government for the death of 121 Georgians who were killed when a plane chartered...
For months Rodriguez Echavarria, a onetime jet pilot, had seemed the very model of a penitent military man. He even became something of a hero for helping break up an attempted comeback by the dead dictator's brothers last November. But the popularity soon waned, and before long Dominicans...
* A Roman Catholic may not take Holy Communion unless he is free of mortal sin, which can only be obtained by confession and absolution from a priest, and no confession is valid unless the penitent sincerely intends never to repeat his sin.