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...Crimson were not about to be left out of the rash of championship performances that Harvard teams have garnered this weekend. Sasner got a wraparound goal of her own as the first period was winding down, and then junior Nina Simonds nailed a 55-footer past Princeton netminder Dodie Colavecchio early in the second period...
...next day, as the Pope traveled to Miami's Tamiami Park to celebrate his first public Mass on the journey, thousands of well-wishers lined the highways, occasionally mobbing his Popemobile -- a white Mercedes-Benz 230G equipped with protective wraparound glass. The weather, however, was less forthcoming. A violent thunderstorm caused abandonment of the service due to the threat of lightning. (A day earlier, in San Antonio, where the Pope was scheduled to celebrate a Mass on Sunday, winds toppled two twelve-story towers behind his outdoor altar...
...dioramas, stick-outs and wraparound environments of Red Grooms have been jiggling and creaking their way to glory on the fourth floor of Manhattan's Whitney Museum through the summer, and there are still queues round the block. Few American artists are more genuinely popular than this 50-year-old from the suburbs of Nashville. Look at Rembrandt and Saskia in their parlor, life-size and shining with booze! Hop into a New York City subway car left over from the pre-graffiti '60s, full of drunks, hippies, nervous housewives and one ultra- Orthodox Jew, all looking like Cabbage Patch...
Princess Margaret tipsily suggests that the new royal baby be christened Johnny Walker, then collapses in a drunken heap. The Pope comes on as just another hipster in wraparound shades, with a banjo and a Texas drawl. And Ronald Reagan spends most of his time in pajamas searching for his missing brain...
This is the reason Garlits, also known as Big Daddy, showed up recently at the National Hot Rod Association Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., in a new $100,000 dragster with no front tires at all. What he had instead, under an aerodynamic wraparound front end of his own design, was a couple of machine belts barely thick enough to keep the thing from running on its wheel rims...