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...flipping off the diving board at Utah's Snowbird mountain resort. And there was Wife Margaret, tripping through Boston's Logan Airport, her three young children in tow, on a visit to her sister in Winchester, Mass. Earlier, the P.M. had made a pilgrimage to that shrine sought by every world statesman-California's Disneyland. "My kids would have loved to see this," he remarked wistfully as Mickey Mouse showed him around. "The world of children is beautiful...
...that Jim Kubacki, a quarterback and Harvard's all-time leader total offense, scored a touchdown in last January's Shrine Game? ...as a tight...
...Virgin Mary. At the gateway to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, at the northern edge of Mexico City, many of the Roman Catholic pilgrims drop to their knees to shuffle painfully forward as they pray for forgiveness. On any day there are crowds at this most venerated shrine in the Americas, but on Dec. 12, the Day of Guadalupe, the crowds turn into a tidal wave of humanity. This week for the first time the day is being celebrated in a huge new basilica, a structure of such size and strident modernity that it raised some fears among...
Shored Up. There was little choice but to build a new shrine. The one erected in 1709 held only 2,000 people, and it was sinking in the spongy soil. The badly cracked structure will now be shored up and preserved as a museum. The new $24 million concrete and marble basilica is supported by 1,000 subterranean pillars and can hold 20,000 people without a single column obstructing the view of the altar. "Thousands of pilgrims want to get a glimpse of Our Lady's image at the same time," explains its architect, Pedro Ramirez Vazquez...
This thunder road legacy manifests itself after work on Friday when cars begin moving through the dusk toward Concord. Built in 1945, the half-mile dirt track has few amenities. Lighting is dim, spectators sit on concrete ledges. Yet Concord is a shrine. Junior Johnson, Tiny Lund and the illustrious Petty clan (Richard Petty, king of the stockers, won $378,865 last year) began their racing careers here. Spectators expect the local boy they applaud to become tomorrow's NASCAR hero. Says Cabarrus County Sheriffs Deputy Stowe Cobb: "We're all participants because those boys out there...