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Some Coincidence. Pondering all this, Padre Pedro Solano, the town's priest, fell back on what he called "the weapons of faith." He decreed a daily penitential procession in which townspeople shouldered a statue of St. Sebastian, the guardian against plague, and asked him to deliver them from crickets...
Last week the crickets seemed to have disappeared and a final procession ended with a Mass of thanksgiving to St. Sebastian. "I'm not one of your fanatical Catholics," said Town Radio Operator Waldir de Barros Correia. "But if it wasn't St. Sebastian, it was one hell...
PABLO PICASSO is nearly as old as the electric light bulb. He was nearing his quarter-century by the time the Wright brothers lumbered into the air at Kitty Hawk. He was well known by the start of World War I and a celebrity when it ended. Since then, his...
Even Connally's friends do not claim that he was an exceptional Governor. He saw no impropriety in accepting a plane for his official use from Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., a leading gas pipeline company with interests in oil. He was the first Governor to veto a war-on-poverty...
The procession ended at Yangoru, a village four miles from the mountain. The leader, a sometime policeman and Catholic mission employee named Yeliwan Matthias, 42, told the bearers to drop the stolen markers outside the local government post, part of Australia's administrative network in Northeast New Guinea. Then...