Word: balda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week); the papal audience takes place in the transept behind the high altar. Shortly before 10, about 8,000 people clutching audience tickets-pink or blue for most of them, the highly prized white for those with altar-side seats-had squeezed subway-tight around Bernini's ornate balda-chino, which covers the high altar underneath the basilica dome. "This is worse than the bargain basement at Klein's," complained a much-jostled librarian from Schenectady. "This will be the fourth Pope I've seen," boasted a man from Rochester, inching toward a favored spot...
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