Word: agostini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Venetian clergy, smarting from the autocratic patriarchate of the late Cardinal-designate Agostini, called Roncalli "calm after the storm." Venice was soon used to seeing his square, black figure almost everywhere, riding in the motor-launch buses and stopping for a chat in the cafes. His door was always open, and his secretaries disapproved of the amount of time he gave to visitors ("Let them come in," he would say. "They may want to confess"). At the Venice music festivals in 1953 and 1956, he filled St. Mark's with music such as the great cathedral had not heard...
...Running under ideal conditions at Bakersfield, Calif., Trinidad's Mike Agostini, a Fresno State College sophomore, ran a straightaway 220-yd dash in :20.1 to break the world's record (:20.2) set in 1949 by Southern California's Mel Patton. ¶| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3½ sec. to crack...
...Vancouver, B.C., at the fifth British Empire Games, the highly favored Aussies got off to a slow start. Trinidad's Mike Agostini (a student at Pennsylvania's Villanova College) whipped Australia's Hector Hogan (co-world-record holder) in the 100-yd. dash, tying the Games record with a 0:9.6 sprint...
...hours this week, just 15 days before the elevation of 24 new cardinals in Rome, the death of Cardinal-designate Carlo Agostini, Patriarch of Venice (see MILESTONES), cut the list to 23. The following day, Pope Pius XII named another man. The new nominee, whose confirmation will help bring the College of Cardinals to its full strength of 70: India's Valerian Gracias, 52, Archbishop of Bombay...
Died. Monsignor Carlo Agostini, 64, patriarch of Venice and one of the 24 new Roman Catholic cardinals named by Pope Pius XII in November; of Parkinson's disease; in Venice...