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Nearly every resident of the small Sicilian winegrowing village of Sant'Alfio last week joined the procession up the fuming, rumbling mountain. Praying, singing hymns and carrying relics of their patron saints, the villagers advanced to within a few yards of the glowing, smoking wall of lava. As his flock knelt before the threatening stream, Sant'Alfio's parish priest, Don Francesco Parisi, tilted his head skyward and implored God to "send away this menace from us and from our homes...
...tongues of lava engulfed the old three-story cement-and-stone volcanological observatory near the top of the mountain and bent the pylons of an aerial tramway into uselessness. The fiery streams rolled over protective rock dikes placed in their path, ignited valuable fruit trees like matchsticks and threatened Sant'Alfio and at least one other village on the highly populated, fertile slopes. Total damage so far: about...
...week's end Sant'Alfio was evacuated in advance of the relentless lava. Lacking any help from the scientists, the people of the mountain could only continue to beseech their saints for help in cooling Vulcan's fiery forge...
Great Bodies. In spite of a record cold spell, Manhattan stores and boutiques can barely match supply to demand. Designers like Halston, Adolfo, Sant Angelo and Betsey Johnson are grinding them out for customers from Jackie Onassis, who stocked up on Halston's shorties for yacht wear, to career girls like Celanese Fabric Coordinator Jacquie Nelson, whose bosses last week granted her permission to wear her knit shorts to work. Bloomingdale's department store ran a hot-pants advertisement this month, only to discover that the resulting zoom in sales was partly due to a cross-town rush...
Even the Encyclopedia Americana recognizes the horror of it all. "The American Santa Claus is a corruption of the Dutch Sant Nikolaas," it says. In Europe, St. Nick-fraud though he may be-rides a white donkey or a grey horse, while in America he uses a bunch of reindeer and flies through the air. In Italy, the children wait for la Bafena, a female who must be at least partially liberated...