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Moments later, shouting, cheering. More motorcycles came and then, behind a police car, there was the black limousine, red lights under the grille blinking between the headlights. And standing through the roof, standing out like a beacon in the gray afternoon, was John Paul II. The St. Peter's C.Y.O. band from Dorchester began to play. The flags were raised. But he was coming so fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: Uphams Corner: A Brief Encounter | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...mainly they kept returning because Celtics basketball is an organized religion, with 13 green-and-white icons hanging from the Garden roof and a list of saints, identified only by the kelly-green number that they once wore, dangling from the skylights. And in this dimlylit, age-crusted catacomb, the faithful wait for the NCAA to part with a titanic saviour, someone with arms long enough and stats big enough to rescue the team. After all, except for the last few years the Celtics have always been basketball's chosen people: you can forgive their fans for hoping...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Larry Bird -- Savior for Section 80 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...program, called "Arts on the Line," is sponsored by the Cambridge Arts Council and MBTA, but much of the support for the project comes from volunteers. Sheldon Cohen, the owner of Out of Town News, donates his roof for the concerts, and the Harvard Coop stores the sound equipment from week to week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MBTA Plans Concert Series To Ease Construction Tension | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...Chicago, city and archdiocesan officials had a more earthly concern: whether the roof of an underground parking garage would collapse under the weight of viewers when an estimated 1.5 million people crowd Grant Park for the Pope's Mass. To show that the roof was safe, an engineering firm piled 430 tons of cinder blocks on it last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Preparing for the Pope | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...unites a large suntan piazza, a luxurious office building for the British Columbia government and a seven-story courthouse covered with a shimmering glass roof that is one of the biggest (53,000 sq. ft.) of its kind in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Vancouver's Dazzling Center | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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