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...crowds cheered him from ancient balconies and sinking quays last Saturday, Pope Paul VI was ferried in a gondola from the mouth of Venice's Grand Canal to the quay of St. Mark's. Beneath the gleaming mosaics of the basilica, he prayed briefly, addressed a throng assembled in the Piazza San Marco, and then journeyed to nearby Udine to celebrate an open-air Mass at the 18th National Eucharistic Congress. In keeping with his pledge to be "an apostle on the move," the Pope made his 15th trip outside the environs of Rome, his sixth within Italy...
...lock onto and streak toward active enemy radar installations. Then, after the pilot fish, came the sharks: 17 B-52s. The B-52s dropped their 30-ton bomb loads into the darkness over Haiphong from 30,000 feet. The explosions destroyed a petroleum tank farm near the Haiphong harbor quay, provoking a fireball so large that it was seen from the bridge of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk 110 miles out at sea in the Gulf of Tonkin...
...biggest news item in Rome since the Italian team made the finals of the 1970 World Cup soccer matches; in Uganda, it rivaled the excitement of Apollo 15. For Southeast Asia's overseas Chinese populations, the event held a special quality. A bank on Singapore's Collyer Quay sold out a supply of 500 special $4 commemorative coins in a matter of minutes; within hours, the coins were briskly trading at $100 apiece...
Located 31 miles west of Marseille, Fos has already become a major unloading point for Middle East oil, is equipped with a mile-long quay for supertankers, and has attracted some $2.5 billion in private investment. Wendel-Si-delor, France's largest steel company, is building a $1.3 billion mill to turn out 7,000,000 tons a year, about one-third of the present national output. At six other points along the same stretch of Mediterranean coastline, government-built resort towns are partially complete. Over the past year they have attracted 600,000 visitors to accommodations ranging from...
...isle to attend to the world's most closely scrutinized coiffure. Bouzouki bandsmen were on hand to play the haunting melodies so dear to the bridegroom's heart. Argosies of viands and wines were lightered in and unloaded while the white-hulled honeymoon yacht creaked at her quay...