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...motorcades in Boston and Manhattan. The actor (John Paul toured Poland with a school theatrical company before entering the priesthood) displayed a sure command of smile, gesture and wink, even capitalizing on his thick Polish accent to draw a laughing cheer by voicing admiration for Manhattan's "sky-scroppers." Then he milked the line a bit, as the laughter and applause rose, and pronounced the word in Polish and Italian. The humanitarian pastor delighted in the happiness of his flock, and he became one with them. Children were his special favorites, and he swept them up lightly in his brawny...
...were supposed to move to San Diego the first of October, but when we heard the Pope was coming we stayed." To decorate the altar platform, 15 Wisconsin volunteers staged a two-week quilting bee to stitch together a 10-ft. square banner done in burnt orange, sky blue and leafy green...
From Interstate 81 to Route 13, via scenic Cortland, a 50--mile journey to Ithaca offers an edifying display of fall foliage. Ofcourse on this trip, the leaves were obscured by predictably dark night sky. So after leaving the city whose airport proclaims it "New York's progressive metropolitan area." We were left to top-40 am tunes on CKLW (Toronto) and Sparky Anderson's World series color commentary on WHAS...
...commission has held hearings this fall on the contract award process, Miett said. He added he is more interested in hearings on corruption. "It's like a time bomb that we've been waiting for months to go off. That's what's going to blow the town sky high," he said...
...period sets for the Victorian England scenes, captures nicely the disparate tone of the two eras: the sheltered, made-to-order past versus the open, anything-goes present. Meyer makes good use of the city, staging a riveting chase over San Francisco's split-level belvederes and sky-ways. Not that Wells spends all his time chasing Stevenson. Romance blooms in the person of Amy, an aggressive bank-executive who takes him to lunch, to the movies, and to her apartment, where Wells succumbs to her charms after a feeble struggle--"I don't want to compromise you," he worries...