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...John Paul spoke pit later with one of his strongest statements on what his church calls "family issues" at a twilight, open-air "Mass for the Christian Family." Police estimated 1.5 million people jammed the Pasco de la Castelluna, one of Madrid's main arteries...
Similar referenda are on the ballot in eight other states and the District of Columbia. They pit those who say a "freeze" would hurt the United States' deterrence capabilities versus those who believe the arms race is too dangerous and that both nations already possess more than enough weaponry to ensure national security. Of the five questions on the ballot, this the most likely to pass--polls show support at greater than 60 percent...
...Mignon Dunn had to hold his hands. Said she: "I was afraid if I let him go, he would leave stage." By this time the audience was divided: some continued booing; others tried to stop them. In the balcony, rival factions smacked each other with programs. From the orchestra pit Conductor Giuseppe Patané, who was ill himself, pleaded with the audience to be quiet; eventually he too collapsed under the strain, and a substitute conductor had to finish the fiasco...
...What is the point of looking at slides of the U.S. Capitol when you can walk out the front door and see it?" asked Daniel Moynihan. At one hearing, the Senator from New York drolly asked Hite if the number of people going down in the Pit equaled the number of people coming up. Some joked that the Pit should be turned into a swimming pool or a national aquarium to take advantage of the leaky roof. Virtually ignored by tourists, the Pit closed after two years...
...reopen in several years. But no matter how faithful the restoration, the "grand gateway to the capital" will never recapture its past glories. "It was really something," says James ("Doc") Carter, who started as a redcap in 1942. "There were kings and queens and Presidents. When they put that Pit in the ground it was terrible, just like someone running you out of your home." -By Maureen Dowd