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...morning was balmy, a refreshing California contrast to the withering heat at earlier stops across the Sunbelt. Entering a modern, glass-walled dining hall in the San Fernando Mission complex in north Los Angeles, Pope John Paul II stopped frequently as he worked his way through a gathering of 320 American Roman Catholic bishops. It was an exceptionally cordial encounter, and the Pope lingered an unscheduled 45 minutes to continue the informal exchanges before a closed-door session began. Again, after the meeting, the atmosphere was relaxed and genial at an outdoor buffet lunch at small tables under white umbrellas...
...Sept. 10-19 journey will feature blessings and warm homilies to huge and friendly crowds (see following story). But this time he will rely far more on advice from American bishops, who conferred with him in Rome, and he is expected to avoid confrontational speeches. The trip, through the Sunbelt and California to Detroit, will acknowledge U.S. cultural pluralism and deal with a few political necessities as well...
...overlooked America's forgotten railways as an alternative to crowded highways. Tens of thousands of miles of underutilized railroads could be transformed into medium- to high-speed transportation networks, particularly in the Northeast, Midwest and Sunbelt. Similarly, the great railway capillary systems of cities like Houston, Los Angeles and Detroit, which were once used extensively for freight delivery, could be developed into useful commuter routes...
Playwright August Strindberg defined the family as an institution where self- respect is smothered. A hundred years later Crooked Hearts provides abundant evidence for the prosecution. The Warrens are a Sunbelt household who make failure a way of life. The father, Edward, plummets from history teacher to instructor in driver's ed. When one of his sons drops out of college, that seems reason enough to get out the unseasonable Christmas lights and have a party. The other two boys soon grow uncomfortable in the competitive world, and a sister concludes that her parents and siblings are "like . . . a family...
...vote of approval within two weeks. Not only had they drafted the blueprint, but they had also created an alliance of the three most populous states, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, with three Southern states that expected to grow rapidly, Georgia and the Carolinas, a sort of proto-Sunbelt. But since the rules of the convention stipulated that no preliminary votes were final, any question could be reopened, and new delegates kept arriving (New Hampshire's team came two months late, and the last Marylander only...