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NORTH-SOUTH SHRINE ALL STAR GAME (ABC, 4-7 p.m.). From Miami's Orange Bowl...
Midnight Mass from the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington (ABC); services from Washington Square Methodist Church, Manhattan (CBS); midnight Mass from St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan...
...tour through the simmering Middle East, Massachusetts' Senator Teddy Kennedy, 34, at last found a relatively peaceful spot. In the Judean hills west of Jerusalem, at Israel's John F. Kennedy Memorial Shrine, he unveiled a bronze plaque bearing a likeness of his brother. The first member of the family to visit the shrine since it was completed last August, Teddy called it "a fitting expression to the aspirations of permanent peace to which President Kennedy was dedicated." He winced when he saw that someone had fired two bullets through the windows of the shrine...
Jersey No. 42. At the Shrine of the Little Flower High School in Royal Oak, Mich., about five miles north of Detroit, Football Coach Al Fracassa announced last week that he was retiring No. 42, the blue and gold jersey worn by "the greatest athlete I've seen in ten years of coaching." No. 42 had been Jim Seymour, a gangling "big little boy" who was Shrine's version of Frank Merriwell. Son of a permissive, well-to-do oil-company executive, Jim had a more than ordinarily comfortable childhood: big, luxurious house, backyard swimming pool, a guitar...
Died. Wieland Wagner, 49, grandson of Composer Richard and avantgarde opera designer; of sarcoidosis; in Munich. "I was born in a mausoleum," Wieland once said, referring to Bayreuth, where Grossvater Wagner had built his own shrine, and he lost not a moment in "clearing 80 years of Kitsch off the stage" when he was made co-director of the family-run Bayreuth Festival in 1951. He began by throwing out all the traditional trappings-animal skins, horned helmets, swan boats and ponderous sets-replacing them with simple robes and stark, dimly lit slabs designed to evoke modern psychological drama...