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...such a pilgrimage could not be. The Vatican, the Indian government, the relentless exigencies of the press, and even Air India foiled the Pope. The airline closed off part of the first-class compartment, provided a raven-haired stewardess in a striped silk sari, and painted the papal coat of arms on the plane. The Indians, as might have been foreseen, discouraged any extensive visits to the poor as an uncalled-for stress on the country's poverty. The Vatican sent along cardinals and priests and supplied tapes of Handel and Vivaldi to be played on the plane. Photographers...
...Greatest." The wonder is that it took him so long to get to South Bend. Handsome and raven-haired, Parseghian could pose for anyone's image of the spirit of Notre Dame?wearing Leahy's shoes and Rockne's suit. He has to win because the laundry bill is too high when he loses; his wife has to change the sweat-soaked bed sheets each morning. Navy Coach Wayne Hardin delights in telling of playing partners with Parseghian in a golf match a few summers ago: "We came up to the 18th hole and had to win it to take...
...were following a slow-motion tennis volley. For nearly three hours the Rumanian President alternated his attentions like clockwork-15 minutes to Revisionist Mikoyan, 15 minutes to Factionalist Li-while his two honored guests pointedly ignored each other. Nothing, not even the considerable efforts of the host's raven haired daughter Lica, who is a Communist movie queen, could make them even look at each other...
Seduced and Abandoned. The girl's name is Agnese, a raven-haired sylph with the face of a Botticelli angel. Head high, eyes cast demurely downward, she moves with easy grace through the cobblestone streets of the small Sicilian village while the camera follows, falling slowly in love with her. So does the audience. Thus Director Pietro Germi eases smoothly into a black and bitter tragicomedy that shows his worldly, wildly wicked Divorce-Italian Style to be an exercise in restraint. In Seduced and Abandoned, by contrast, Germi's underlying despair keeps burning to the surface. "This time...
...Crimson took another second place Sunday when they lost the Raven Heptagonal meet to Brown. The Coast Guard, sailing on home water, placed third...