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Czechoslovakia's hard-line regime was confronted with a peaceful but highly unusual protest over the country's repression of religious freedoms. To make their point, 10,000 Roman Catholics gathered at St. Vitus' Cathedral in Prague's Hradcany district for a special Mass celebrated by Primate Franticek Cardinal Tomacek, 88. Police did not interfere, but they had previously arrested 13 dissidents to prevent their participation...
...visit by two men, once at his home and again outside Houston police headquarters on the day he was to identify one captured suspect in a lineup. Suddenly, the best part of the detective's case had dissolved. "Shaking so bad it looked like he had St. Vitus's dance," as Calhoun put it, the minister explained that he feared for his children's lives and could not cooperate...
While the economic year ahead looks generally gloomy, the year now closing has been downright schizophrenic. From January through December, the nation's business indicators gyrated as though they were suffering from a case of St. Vitus's dance. Gold and stock markets soared and tumbled with regularity. Interest rates bounced wildly up and down...
...fatalist a song, "Living Through Another Cuba" has remarkable energy: an overwrought disco tune with a message, it sounds like music to accompany St, Vitus' Dance--or the Dance of Death...
...Wallace in 1976. He craftily plays down his chances in the March 2 primary and then adds-with something between a twinkle and a leer: "What if I did get a good vote? It would be a pretty potent message, wouldn't it? It would give them St. Vitus's dance in other campaign headquarters...