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...congested city of Rio as John Paul's "Popemobile" arrived. At a jammed open-air Mass in sight of Sugar Loaf Mountain, the Pope made his way to the altar, hugging and kissing babies. Two days later, in São Paulo, the fervor of an open-air throng of 1.5 million brought tears to John Paul's eyes...
...basketball players--all basketball players--complain when they think an unjustified foul has been called, and many complain on principle, every time they hear a whistle. The thought of Mendy Rudolph bellowing, "Mr. Dawkins will resume play." The idea of the Garden scoreboard operator announcing to the assembled throng, "Mr. Tiny Archibald has been issued a public warning." The next time Don Zimmer charges out of the dugout, consider how effective Larry Barnett would be were he to say "One word more and I will issue a public condemnation...
Their journey repeats the classic American immigrant sagas. To escape the old country (the ration line, the future foreclosed, the totalitarian rant), they climb aboard overcrowded boats and go pitching out across the water to a different life. When they glimpse the new land, they throng to the rails; they peer toward the dock with that vulnerable immigrant look of yearning that everyone carries in memory, like a cracked photograph: the faces at Ellis Island, the Golden Door-or at least the servants' entrance-to the new world and all its redemptions...
When the papal tour moved on to Kenya, the congregation in Nairobi's Uhuru (Freedom) Park numbered 600,000. The blind and crippled mingled in the throng in the hope of receiving a papal blessing, but it was difficult for multitudes in neighboring Tanzania and Uganda to attend. Tanzania has sealed its border with Kenya. Both Tanzania and Uganda refused to release exchange currency for those who wished to travel, though Uganda's President Godfrey Bi-naisa arrived anyway. Some got in without money. A Tanzanian woman from Moshi made it across the border by walking at night...
...visas outside the offices of the U.S. Interest Section, which represents the U.S. on the island in the absence of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Suddenly several buses pulled up, and scores of their country men jumped out. Swinging tire irons, pipes and chains, they into the throng as police stood by and watched. After 20 minutes, more police arrived and the fighting stopped, but not before a dozen were injured and some 400 of the visa seekers had fled into the U.S. offices...