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...private audience with Polish President Henryk Jablonski, he reportedly won assurances that his homeland's doors would always be open to him. With France's President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the new Pope spoke of world issues and of the universality of faith. With an envoy of Lebanese Maronite Rite bishops, he presided over a lengthy audience and told reporters later: "A visit to Lebanon could be very useful. But above all we must find a solution. My heart is very troubled by Lebanon...
...dowsing going to the dogs? Not at all, bemused residents of Danville report. What was once a local meeting of workaday dowsers has now turned into an autumnal rite as garish as Vermont's fall foliage. In the 18 years since it was founded, Dowsers Inc. has gone subliminal-as well as international. From as far away as Alaska and New Zealand, nearly 600 people have descended upon Danville. Some come to find water, of course. But just as many others are in search of panaceas for depression, mysterious cures for stubborn ailments. Says Society Spokesman Ted Kaufmann...
...Curia last week came to an abrupt halt. All the officials so recently reappointed by John Paul were again suspended; in the last papal interregnum Camerlengo Villot was so strict that one Cardinal who came by his old office was asked to leave immediately. One other traditional rite will not occur this time. A dead Pope's papal ring is ceremonially smashed; historically, the purpose was to prevent forgeries. But John Paul's papal ring will not be smashed?because there had not yet been time to mint...
...White House has never seen any thing to beat it. Where the powerful and the privileged usually dine, a buffet is laid on for members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Where Casals once played, the entertain ment is a sort of tribal rite in which the guests whoop it up to a Texas honky-tonk beat. The placid evening air is pierced by a singer's plangent...
...lots of Lowells; many of the great intellects of American history actually slept in these dorms. But that won't mean beans to you during Freshman Week, you just for here, no ghosts yet. Freshman Week is traditionally the time when Yardlings engage in a sort of mass baptismal rite, tearing around the Yard with anything that will hold liquid and dousing everything that moves. Traditionally, at least one major administrator or religious leader is blessed by the exuberant water-wielders each year causing the Dean of Freshman to decree some kind of foolish injunction against further water-fighting...