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...more than three decades, the tall, big-boned prelate towered over the commissars as the most influential figure in Poland: spiritual leader of the nation's overwhelmingly (90%) Roman Catholic population, outspoken advocate of social and political rights, defiant symbol of Polish nationalism under the shadow of Soviet domination. When he died of abdominal cancer in Warsaw last week at the age of 79, he left behind the most powerful Catholic Church in the East bloc-and a nation whose political awakening has shaken the Communist world to its core...
...sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, on the other hand, posed for a Rapid City, S. Dak., bulb squeezer and got more, or less, than he paid for. A bulky man, he scowls from the frame as if sizing up a landscape, and the shadow of his profile, grand as that of his own George Washington, fills the wall behind him. It is the sort of thing meant for a WPA mural. But captured with a fineness that Weston would have envied are hands that tell why this man sculptured mountains. Even though most of the pictures were printed directly...
...TRADITION! Old men return to the Yard, in the shadow of Widener Library and Memorial Church, to welcome the young to the company of the educated. Commencement is a beautiful day, even when it rains, for it represents the continuity and the renewal that comes with each new generation...
...band and audience got drunk and danced together. The movement was shorter lived than the hula hoop, and left these two groups without a musical home. The Rumour formed as a studio band for gas-station-attendant-turned-songwriter Graham Parker, and have had trouble appearing from behind his shadow. Their problem is not musical ability; they play everything from Motown to reggae to Abba, all with their own, flawless sound...
Sands' death also managed to cast a shadow abroad. The state legislatures of New Jersey and Massachusetts passed resolutions deploring Sands' death. The 110,000-member International Longshoremen's Association, which mans the docks along the U.S. East and Gulf coasts, announced a one-day boycott of ships flying the Union Jack (only three vessels were believed to be affected). Of more serious consequence was the high probability that Republican sympathizers in the U.S. were once again passing the hat for the I.R.A., renewing the flow of arms-buying money estimated as high as $3 million annually...