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Milan's 600-year-old cathedral is in danger of collapse, and visitors are banned from the apse and roof. The four main pillars supporting the dome -each weighing 3,800 tons-have sunk almost an inch in the past three years, breaking two of the four tie beams between them. The mayor of Milan admitted that "the situation is not dramatic, though it is worrying." He has banned motor traffic from the huge and busy square in front of the cathedral, in effect closing the crossroads of the central city. The result has been the worst traffic snarls...
...well; antique dealer, an egg salesman, a grocery store owner, a hermit from the backwoods, a clown, a few auto mechanics, a few hell's angels, ballet dancers, policemen, the works. The photographers have haunted such honky tonk spots as Revere and Nantasket Beach, and Paragon Park. They have sunk into the ghettoes, slunk into back stage dressing rooms, and escaped into meat markets, barber shops, auction barns, trailer parks, fields and kitchens, as well as their friends' homes...
...days of the square-riggers. It would tickle me pink to beat one of those." Meanwhile, he can collect some plump publishing and endorsement fees (the race's official first prize is simply a 12-in. silver plate) and continue paying off the borrowed money he has sunk into Pen Duick IV. Says Fiancée Teura: "Everything has gone into the boat. So Alain had to win for our marriage, for our future, for everything. But, you see, he is not a man like other men." D'accord...
...rabid Madison Square Garden fans screeched DEE-fense. DEE-fense to spur New York into a ball-stealing frenzy. Jerry West calmly sunk a twenty-footer from the right side, and teammate Gail Goodrich followed with another basket moments later to rescue the Lakers from danger...
Senator Tom Eagleton, of Missouri, and longtime Presidential Adviser, Jim Rowe, who had opposed Muskie's ill-fated effort in Wisconsin, were sunk in gloom over his fourth-place finish there. Clark Clifford had also been against competing in that primary, but his was a voice of optimism still. U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock, Businessman-Diplomat Sol Linowitz and Muskie's Maine confidant, George Mitchell, added their warnings, suggestions and views to the three-hour discussion that ended with a compromise agreement on new Muskie strategy...