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...Toronto, a Latin American refugee, 26, froze in terror when a well-wisher brought him a gift basket that included two pineapples. In the refugee's native country, he had been forced to watch as his military captor hacked several prisoners to death, then carved up a ripe pineapple with the bloodstained machete and calmly ate the slices...
...color-television screen outside the hotel. Party workers sent up occasional chants of "Felipe, Presidentel Felipe, Presidente!" while other supporters converged on the capital's main square, singing, dancing and hugging one another. One grizzled workingman with a red bandanna on his neck embraced a well-wisher with tears in his eyes and announced hoarsely, "España socialista!" Overall, however, the crowds were relatively subdued, partly because the outcome had been so widely predicted, and partly because González had appealed for the "avoidance of any provocation" that might upset the stability of Spain's fledgling...
...well-wisher flutters up, and Helms remembers. "What kin are you to R.L.?" he asks...
After taking a telephone call from a well-wisher at the Le Mans race track, he could have said, "That was Mother." But it would not have had quite the same cachet, so Mark Thatcher, 26, announced, "That was the Prime Minister." Midway into the grueling 24-hr, sports car race, young Thatcher, positioned 30th in a field of 34, suffered what he later called "a momentary lapse of concentration" while negotiating an S bend at 80 m.p.h. His Osella skittered crabwise across the track, bumped to a stop against a safety barrier and refused to start. Thatcher, who made...
...idea receded as the week progressed, partly because tradition is not easily abandoned in the church, and because the Cardinals are only too aware of the unpredictability of human life and death. (It was recalled that Leo XIII was notably frail but lived to be 93. When a well-wisher said to him, "May you live to be 100," he replied: "Why do you want to set limits on Divine Providence?") Even so, the health factor swiftly eliminated one attractive candidate, Brazil's Aloisio Lorscheider, 54, who had just spent two or three days in a hospital intensive-care...