Word: balzan
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...follow wherever he goes, but Pope John XXIII, 81, appears to be going everywhere possible. At the start of a busy weekend, he attended twin ceremonies in the Vatican Palace and St. Peter's Basilica, accepting his $160,000 Peace Prize (earmarked for charity) from the Swiss-Italian Balzan Foundation, next day turned up in the Quirinal Palace, where Italian President Antonio Segni presented Balzan awards to other cultural leaders. As he rode through Rome in an open car, the Pontiff -looking thinner than usual-was hailed by crowds crying "Viva! Viva...
...younger, award-giving replica of the Nobel Foundation, which derives its income from the estate of the late Italian press lord, Eugenio Balzan...
...Communists would do with that in Italy's general election next month, refused, and suggested a general audience with other Vatican visitors. Adzhubei rejected that proposal, but the Vatican's subtle chief of protocol, Msgr. Igino Cardinale, figured out a deft compromise. Since officials of the Balzan Foundation* were scheduled to visit the Pope with the formal announcement that he had won their 1963 Peace Prize, why should not Adzhubei cover the event as a working journalist? Afterward, it was hinted, a private-but quite unofficial-meeting with the Pope might be arranged...
...Russia as a fighter for peace. John answered that he was only doing God's will. The Pope recalled his own journeys through the Balkans as a Vatican diplomat. Adzhubei apparently gave the Pope a personal message from Khrushchev, who had instructed the Russian members of the Balzan Foundation to vote the Peace Prize to John, and had sent word that he was delighted after the award was announced...
Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, emeritus, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, has won a $51,000 award in history. The Prize was given him Thursday by the International Balzan Foundation of Zurich, Switzerland...