Word: attendants
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Bitter History. Near the end of the Ecumenical Council in Rome, Poland's delegation, headed by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, decided to ask East-and West-Germany's 54 bishops, archbishops and cardinals to attend the 1,000th anniversary of the conversion of Poland's King Mieczyslaw I, to be celebrated in Czestochowa next May 3. In a remarkable 17-page invitation, the Polish primates reviewed the bitter record of Polish-German relations, concluded it had been an accident of history. "We grant forgiveness and we ask forgiveness," they said. "Let us seek to forget. No polemics...
Wladyslaw Gomulka can refuse to issue visas to the West German bishops-but if he does, Pope Paul VI, who in the 1920s filled a diplomatic post in Warsaw and who would greatly like to attend the ceremonies at Czestochowa himself, can hardly overlook the insult to his church. The Vatican last week could only wait, and hope that Gomulka would simmer down...
...marauding Danes were tacked to its ancient doors. Although nobody has been murdered within, Richard II once struck down the Earl of Salisbury during a funeral service for Richard's first wife. So in love with her was he that every noble in the land was ordered to attend. When the earl stooped from fatigue, the King bludgeoned him to the floor. As a work of architecture, the church boasts a 103-ft.-tall nave that is the loftiest example of Gothic architecture in Great Britain. More French by inspiration than any other English Gothic church, the Abbey...
...only changed the strategy of baseball management; he helped change the very tone of the game. In the early 1900s baseball was dominated by rowdies and gamblers. Rickey, a strict Methodist who never drank or swore (his strongest epithet was "Judas Priest!") and refused all his life to attend ball games on Sunday, gave respectability to the sport. He lectured his players endlessly on strength of character and nobility of purpose. "Luck," he liked to tell them, "is the residue of design." He popularized "the Knothole Gang" and Ladies' Day-designed to attract a proper citizenry to the ballpark...
...School Young Dems sent a letter to Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 dissassociating themselves from the rally, and urging him not to attend it. The Harvard Young Dems decided Monday to also send Kennedy such a letter...