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...Incumbent Mayor Justin Lacaze planned to build a stone's throw from the site of Bernadette's vision. If he were removed from office, Lacaze threatened, ecclesiastical authorities might build a parking lot in a meadow on the other side of the grotto, enabling pilgrims to park, pray and go away without even passing through Lourdes (pop. 18,000). But townsfolk failed to fall for that and for the first time in history voted in an anticlerical Radical Socialist Francois Abadie, who opposed building a garage anywhere...
...Taylor sings with "dignity," "restraint" and talent, then what adjectives, pray tell, are we to use for the Bernsteins, Coplands, Mozarts and even Sinatras of the world...
...cutout page of emergency telephone numbers-for firemen, police, suicide prevention, addict assistance, a 24-hour locksmith, air pollution, a poison-control center and dial-a-prayer. The recorded prayer: "Oh Lord, I am very aware that I live in a world of muggers and purse snatchers. I earnestly pray for help to keep my perspective . . . and even if I am a victim of a crime, that I might pray for those who have thus abused...
...Road Evergreen Review No. 2, and The New American Poetry. The last picture in this final section, a picture of a sullen Kerouac in Tangier, has a caption below it that is prophetic: "At that time I sincerely believed that the only decent activity in the world was to pray for everyone, in solitude... At that very moment, the manuscript of On the Road was being linotyped for imminent publication and I was already sick of the whole subject...
...field. For example, an extra-inning away baseball game can really mess up a manager's plans. "When a game reaches the 12th inning and our flight departure time gets closer and closer. I begin to worry." baseball's Hollis McLonghlin said. "I start to pray 'Please God, give us a double play so we can get out of here...