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...over the country the people sang and waved and prayed and wept with him, and he sang and waved and wept with them, and they drew power from each other. In Czestochowa, a vast expanse of several hundred thousand worshipers, at a single hand gesture of the Pope, sank to the earth, like a field of instantly scythed wheat, to pray...
Last year, Yale treated the hapless Harvard heavies crew-ly, grabbing the Eastern sprints for the first time since 1958. Navy also sank the Crimson, who finished a disappointing fourth in the 1978 San Diego classic...
Himelman bayoneted the green with an eight iron and then administered the coup de grace when he sank the 15-ft. putt for his first birdie...
...Marie. She is headed for Whitefish Bay, a shallow and troublesome body of water leading into the treacherous inland sea that is Lake Superior. In 1975 the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, eulogized by Singer Gordon Lightfoot, was heading for shelter in the bay through a November gale when she sank with a crew of 29. In real winter, which in these parts begins in late December and does not let up until April, Superior's blasts drive ice down the bay in windrowed slabs, like giant serving dishes stacked in a sink...
...bruising of the President did not stop all week. Despite Carter's efforts to appear decisive and determined in his handling of the nation's affairs, he kept encountering hidden obstacles. And as his standing in U.S. public opinion polls once again sank, world events seemed conspiring to prove his frequently repeated assertion that "the United States cannot control events within other nations...