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...would dearly love to return to Poland a second time in 1982 for the 600th anniversary of the installation of the Black Madonna at Czestochowa, and at the shrine he made a teasing reference to this hope. He said that the Prefect of the Pontifical Household and the Chief of Vatican Protocol were "novices" in Poland but "they must get used to it." These are officials who must accompany a Pope on trips. A return would be subject to another round of negotiations with the regime, and, as the Pope twice suggested during his tour, the Polish government had kept...
...with a high inside fastball, Hammerin' Hank hit a 350-ft. drive that sailed over the leftfield wall and caromed back onto the playing field. After retrieving the ball, Third Base Umpire Paul Pryor was presented with a card that read: "I caught Hank Aaron's 600th home run." It was a souvenir worth keeping, for Aaron had just set a career mark surpassed by only two other players-Mays and Babe Ruth...
Aaron's 600th stirred speculation that either he or Mays might break Ruth's once seemingly unassailable lifetime record of 714 home runs. Mays, whose five homers so far this season give him a total of 633, has at best only an outside chance. Though Willie feels he has five more seasons left in him, he is fighting not only time but the wicked left-to-right winds that plague righthanded power hitters in San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Aaron is three years younger than Mays (he turned 37 in February) and also has the advantage...
Last month, in an unprecedented move, the city council of Oxford decided to patch things up once and for all. For the 600th anniversary of the great brawl, they planned a special ceremony, invited officials of the university to attend. Only one alderman-Laborite E. A. Smewin-objected. "The relations between town and gown," said he, "seem friendly enough-but so do those between the German people and the armies in Berlin. Oxford is an occupied city...
Noting the 1,600th anniversary this year of Augustine's birth, Czechoslovakia's Dr. Joseph L. Hromadka said at Princeton: "Saint Augustine . . . laid-in a way-a foundation for ... what we have called Christian civilization...