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Such was the situation in the moun tain town of San Giovanni Rotondo, not far from Foggia in southeastern Italy. Here was a shrine to a saint who was not only popular but who provided the extra added attraction of being alive as well. Padre Pio was not officially a saint; to qualify for sainthood, one must be dead and have been responsible for at least four unchallenged miracles. But one day in 1918, the Capuchin friar looked at his hands and what he saw terrified him so that he fainted; the frightened monks who came to help crossed themselves...
...Japanese bus riders: Kenji Osano, a burly, self-made millionaire who owns most of the buses that will use the new terminal. Last week, with his eye on lengthier travel as well, Osano asked the Japanese government for permission to start a bus line from Tokyo to a moun tain resort 140 miles away; he hopes that it will be the first link in a Greyhound-like system for Japan...
Private Mountain. The land where Hope will rule is so small that its 2,748 sq. mi. and 162,000 people could fit comfortably into a U.S. national park like Yellowstone. The new Maharajah personally owns Kanchenjunga which, at 28,146 ft., is the third tallest moun tain in the world and probably the world's most majestic when its snowy peaks are lit by the sunrise and borne aloft on lacy clouds. Sikkim contains every variety of climate and plant, from the subtropical through the temperate to the arctic. Snow leopards prowl the Himalayan slopes, pandas frolic...
...gathered up and brought to his dressing room. The curtain went up 25 minutes late, and Di Stefano sang nicely, step ping out of character at every hint of applause to bow grandly. The ushers snatched the offending programs back from his dressing room at the final cur tain and passed them out to the departing crowd. Thus those whose ears had not already informed them that Giuseppe is not the peer of Corelli learned it on the way home...
Even after two unsettling defeats, in which Yankee power had been merely a tter of rhetoric and Yankee fielding had resembled that of the Bums of Flatbush their zaniest, the New York club remained confident of ultimate victory and tain of a win today...