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...most controversial event of the three-day visit was a 45-minute meeting with Emperor Hirohito, 79. Rabid right-wingers, distressed that Hirohito, a former Shinto god, would deign to meet with a Vicar of Christ, rode about town waving a sign proclaiming POPE IS A BEAST. Some of Japan's 700,000 Protestants protested the meeting as well. The Pope's visit, they felt, would en courage a resurgent movement to elevate Shintoism to status as a national religion. About 70 others, including left-wingers, four Japanese Catholic clergy men and some Buddhist priests, accused John Paul...
With his parents in the stands, Lubowitz--a Philly native--dropped the third game and then found out during the break between games that the Crimson's fate rode on his match...
...after it arrived at the medical center. On that night there were a large number of spectators around, and our intention was to get the ambulance to the morgue before the crowd gathered. The honor guard, along with a Navy enlisted-man driver, the other duty officer and me, rode to the morgue on the guard truck at a high speed, believing that the ambulance was following. When we got there, the ambulance was not to be seen...
...fraud has long fueled campaign rhetoric, and this year's elections were no different. Ronald Reagan and a conservative Senate swept in on the tide of his anti-inflation platform, denouncing the increased deficit spending, congested policy making and great waste of the Carter administration, just as Carter rode four years ago on the tide of Watergate and anti-big-business sentiment directed against the Republicans in office...
...through the morning, Sick relayed the bad news to Carter, which was that there was no news about takeoffs in Tehran. He called him away from coffee with the Reagans in the Blue Room, rang him as Carter and Reagan rode together to the Capitol in the black presidential limousine, reached him again at a phone in the Capitol Rotunda. During Reagan's Inaugural speech, Carter briefly closed his red-rimmed eyes, a moment caught by television cameras. He had been praying for the hostages, he later told aides, who had wondered if he had fallen asleep...