Word: 450th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born in Peru-at 23, she was named Laureate Composer of Peru-and studied at Juilliard. Sands, her exotic orchestral fantasy, which will be performed at next week's New York Philharmonic concert, was commissioned in 1966 by the Venezuelan government in honor of that country's 450th birthday...
History's most famous diet-Worms -is having its 450th anniversary this week, and Roman Catholics in that town on the Rhine have appealed to Pope Paul VI to say a good word for Martin Luther, whose refusal to recant there precipitated the Protestant Reformation. Referring to the Pope's acknowledgment that the Roman Church was partly responsible for the Protestant-Catholic split, the six Worms laymen and clergymen who signed the appeal called for a papal statement "bringing detente in the ever-present tensions regarding the excommunication of Martin Luther...