Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other Ivy League finishers were: Yale (14th). Princeton (15th), Brown (16th), Cornell (19th), and Penn (23rd). Princeton's Alan Andreini was 27th and Yale's Frank Shorter was 44th...
...mangy guitar and Hendra doing a Cambridge version of Teresa Brewer. The BBC news coolly reports that an H-bomb has been dropped on Ireland and asks public-spiritedly: "Would anyone who saw this accident report to the local authorities?" Hendra reminisces about one of his ancestors, a 16th century poet known as "the Scarlet Pimp,"" who composed the immortal ballad beginning, "Foftly, foftly, blowf the gale,/ Upon my miftreff bofom...
...where Picasso lives. Grateful citizens of Vallauris, the town Picasso resurrected by reviving its pottery industry, sent a huge bouquet of red roses with a white dove in a cage, and their children sent batches of their best crayon drawings. His wife Jacqueline, 41, gave him a pair of 16th century lead dogs for the garden...
...would have been passed up by connoisseurs a decade ago are now fetching some farfetched prices. Pre-Raphaelite drawings, early Americana and Louis XIII furniture have increased over last season's record-smashing pace. Peregrine Pollen, president of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet, is still stunned that a 16th century bronze brought $17,000, or $5,000 more than his most optimistic guess. For the first time Parke-Bernet's schedule is booked for the next six months. But cautions Pollen: "Don't expect to come and get bargains this year...
Rome's seminary system began to take shape after the 16th century Council of Trent, which ordered every diocese to support and properly train its own priests. In 1552 St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, set up the Gregorian. Eventually, Catholic prelates from other countries created col leges in Rome so that their brightest seminarians could study under the Greg's good Jesuit teachers or with the Dominicans at the Angelicum (founded in 1580). Once back home, graduates soon found that a degree from Rome was the sort of clerical credential that led to quick promotion. Study...