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...Cardinals in conclave again try to find their compassionate shepherd from within the ranks of Italian pastors, they will have their work cut out for them. The Patriarchate of Venice, left open by Pope John Paul, stands empty. Giovanni Cardinal Colombo, Arch bishop of Milan, will be 76 in December. The important Arch diocese of Turin is governed by a Franciscan friar noted for his spirituality, Anastasio Ballestrero, 66 this week. But Ballestrero, though eligible to be elected Pope, is an unlikely candidate because he is not yet a Cardinal. Antonio Cardinal Poma of Bologna, 68, is a kindly, humble...
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...three days, Shepherd has been haunting the A & A, awaiting the arrival, by Greyhound bus from Salt Lake City, of a part for his brown Triumph sports car. The Triumph suffered a blown head gasket after pulling a U-Haul trailer up one mountain grade too many. Shepherd wears his hair long, sports a scraggly beard, an earring in his left ear lobe and a gold marijuana leaf in his collar. He is going to the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he will study molecular biology. He is impatient to leave Evanston, this cowboy and oil town where they...
Such sentiments are typical enough in this part of western Wyoming, which still enjoys a lingering sense of pioneer independence and unabashed patriotism. Legends like KEEP AMERICA GREEN and JOIN THE ARMY adorn the bumpers of many a local pickup that rolls into the A & A. Shepherd is not as out of place in this environment as he thinks, though. The A & A looks pretty much the way most gas stations everywhere did before self-service and digital pump readouts set in. But it is only a lasso's throw away from Interstate 80, America's main street...
...Shepherd is only one of several bit players in the cinema verite unfolding at this particular American crossroads. The set: a cement driveway, four pumps (ethyl, regular and lead-free), two tiled bathrooms, two mechanics' bays and a battery of U-Haul trailers for rent. Most of the cast had never heard of Evanston, much less the A & A, until they found themselves waylaid outside town by a steaming radiator, broken drive shaft, clogged fuel pump or flat tire, and brought here. Usually they are towed in by Jon Lunsford, 40, soft-spoken Mormon and "the Boss...