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...Colombians and the guerrillas were carried on inside a cream-colored van parked in front of the embassy's main gate. Last week two officials of the Colombian Foreign Ministry met inside the truck with one of the guerrilla women, who was wearing a jogging jacket, jeans and a woolen mask over her face. She was accompanied by Mexican Ambassador Ricardo Galan, representing the prisoners. All three men, with Latin chivalry, gallantly stood aside to allow the hooded woman to enter first. After two hours and 20 minutes of secret talks, there were signs of some progress. Austrian Ambassador Edgar...
...autumn monsoon. Rain fell before or during each of the first three games, and temperatures were in the numbing 30s and low 40s, but Kuhn came sans coat and umbrella one night. He saw to it that players kept up appearances as well, forbidding the wearing of woolen ski caps during batting practice and on the bench. "I don't know about him," one Pirate grumbled, "but my ears are cold...
Homeowners are using both simple and desperate means to cut oil consumption, everything from buying flannel pajamas and woolen sweaters to closing off rooms .and even whole floors for the duration. In Agawam, Mass., Ernest Bleeck, 73, a retired sales manager, and his wife Mary, 66, spent $2,000 to build a greenhouse on the sunny kitchen side of their two-story frame house. In addition, they have placed several water-filled, 55-gal. barrels among their geraniums and lettuce plants where the sun will warm the water; then the warmth can flow into the house through the kitchen windows...
...loop back to London, the Mini practically drives itself through the lush hills and yellow stone villages of the Cotswolds. From Chipping Norton, one can espy an extraordinary edifice, half-castle, half-factory, called the Bliss tweed mill. Bliss it is: the 1872 mill weaves woolen fabrics for some of the world's great tailors and will sell them to the passer-by for about $10 a yard...
Almost as soon as the white woolen pallium of office was draped around his shoulders, Pope John Paul II began asserting a vigorous personal style. Before week's end that style ruffled the Vatican's starchy bureaucracy, but it also charmed a watching world...