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...Casa Grande. Normally toiling in nearby sugarcane fields, the villagers stood in the withering heat waiting for an apparition from the sky. As a whining white air force helicopter came into view, the crowd spotted the broad, beaming face of President Alan García Pérez, waving a white handkerchief in greeting. "Alan!" thundered the crowd as the helicopter set down in a swirl of dust. "Alan! Alan...
...there are rules to be obeyed. Mainstream men's fashion is the business of defining those rules, marketing them and playing subtle little games with them. In the boardroom or the law office, such rules are not flouted, never mind broken. They are nudged gently. The fold of a handkerchief in the breast pocket of a suit jacket, the width of a stripe on a shirt, a print on a pair of bright suspenders: these are the permissible talismans of individuality. Pitiful...
...sniffles and hoarse voice didn't stop the 78-year-old German from giving a forceful homily this morning in the final public mass before the 115 elector cardinals were locked off from the world. But when I heard him cough, when I saw him reach for a handkerchief from the sleeve of his scarlet vestments, I remembered a conversation I had last week with a Vatican insider convinced that Ratzinger was perfectly positioned to succeed John Paul II. "Anything can happen of course," the source told me. "Ratzinger could wake up Monday with a cold." There's obviously...
DIED. JOHN KELLEY, 97, Massachusetts native who ran the Boston Marathon a record 61 times from 1928 to 1992; in South Yarmouth, Mass. In 1935, armed with a lucky handkerchief and 15 chocolate pills, he took a subway, a train and a bus from his home to the starting line, and clinched his first Boston victory. He won again in 1945 and placed second seven times. In 1993 the city honored him with a statue near the base of Heartbreak Hill...
DIED. VESTAL GOODMAN, 74, Grammy-winning singer known as "the Queen of Gospel"; of complications from the flu; in Celebration, Fla. With her elaborate hairdos and the trademark white handkerchief she waved at audiences, Goodman and her husband Happy dazzled fans in live performances that were reminiscent of early camp-meeting evangelism. In five decades together, the Happy Goodman Family act recorded 15 No. 1 gospel hits...