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Starting with their opposition to plans to widen Memorial Drive by chopping down its stately sycamore trees, the neighborhood's residents had their greatest success in opposing plans to build the John F. Kennedy '40 Library on a site Kennedy himself had selected near the Kennedy School of Government--plans that were strongly backed by then-City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci...
John Paul will follow a similar schedule at each stop. He will be greeted at the airport by government officials and later will meet privately with the head of state. The high point of each visit will be an open-air Mass on a site large enough to hold crowds in the hundreds of thousands. The Pope has also scheduled meetings with the bishops of every national church and plans to address smaller groups representing a cross section of the faithful, from nuns to campesinos...
Extraordinary preparations are already under way for the historic visit. Guatemala's government is erecting a two-story steel cross that will remain permanently at the site of a papal rally in the Campo de Marte stadium. Hundreds of people plan to stay up the night before his arrival laying a multicolored carpet of sawdust and pine needles, a tradition during Holy Week, that will cover the six-mile path of the Pope's motorcade. Street vendors in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa are hawking posters, bumper stickers, buttons and records of a jingle that has become...
...fifth consecutive Eastern Seaboard Championship is a depleted squad surpasses the most complete understatement. But competing without the services a head coach, a captain and potential All-American, and a University record-holding sprinter, the Crimson has jumped to a 64 point lead at the U.S. Naval Acadamy, site of this year's competition...
Discussion centered on the cost of the Legal Services Center $200,000 this year and on the transportation and security problems of the Jamica Plaie site. But "on the whole, it was a rather sea-controversial issue," Bernardi said...