Word: battista
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When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his aide and preferred successor, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, was ineligible for the papacy because he was not a Cardinal. As a stopgap, the Cardinal-electors turned to the apparently innocuous Angelo Giuseppi Roncalli, 76. Roncalli, of course, became Pope John XXIII, whose Vatican Council set in motion epochal reforms in the church. But Montini, who was made a Cardinal by John, finally got his turn after John died in 1963, and it was his dogged bureaucratic talents, as Pope Paul VI, that made the sweeping new policies stick. Thus, writes Wilton Wynn...
...Bobbie Battista, an anchorwoman for Cable News Network, is not exactly a household name in the U.S., but she is a celebrity in Poland. French, Italian and Japanese viewers now wake up to the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, while Australians fall asleep to the sound of Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel of NBC's Today show -- at midnight. Marshall McLuhan's oft-cited 1967 declaration is finally coming to pass: "We now live in a global village . . . a simultaneous happening...
...more than $1.8 billion apiece, the Seawolfs may turn out to be the superduds of undersea warfare. Last week widely respected Congressional Staff Aide Anthony Battista declared that the Seawolf could not compete with faster, quieter Soviet subs and that the Navy should scrap it. Reaction to this broadside was swift. "We continue to have, by far, the finest submarines in the world," retorted Navy Secretary James Webb...
...Congressmen (New York's Thomas Downey, Wisconsin's Jim Moody and Michigan's Bob Carr) were accompanied by Anthony Battista, a House Armed Services Committee technical expert. He concluded that the facility is not designed to use the frequencies most effective for space tracking -- a point that Soviet technicians conceded. The radar is also pointed toward the northeast, where the Soviet radar gap exists, rather than the south, where much more space activity could be followed...
...Battista also found Krasnoyarsk ineffective as an ABM site: it is poorly constructed and not hardened against shock waves or electromagnetic pulse effects. "If this radar were turned on today," he said, "it would be an early-warning radar -- not a very good one." Yet it cannot be switched on soon, the U.S. visitors concluded, because the facility lacks essential electronic equipment. They predicted it will take two years to complete...