Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original itinerary. But Joe Hays, 39, a farmer and mechanic in Truro, sent the Pope a handwritten letter inviting him to visit American farm country. John Paul, who grew up in a Poland that was then overwhelmingly agricultural, accepted only five weeks before his U.S. tour was to begin, throwing Des Moines residents into a frenzy of eleventh-hour preparation...
Some Catholics seize upon the anti-Catholic sentiments strewn around arguments over abortion or contraception and in defensive anger begin to think that the entire non-Catholic society is turning against them. That is simply not true. Both Catholics and non-Catholics can, and do, disagree with the church on some issues without being anti-Catholic. A number of Catholics see evidence that the rest of the country is anti-Catholic if it seems to exclude ethnics - Italians, Irish, Poles and so on - from various opportunities. But that logic is also defective. One-third of the nation's Catholics...
This is one weird place to kick off a presidential campaign--or begin to bury an incumbent. St. Petersburg, Florida: From the state that brought us Anita Bryant and Bebe Rebozo, we now get, live and in color, the first hesitant steps on the protracted campaign trail. If rumors are to be trusted--and they seem about as reliable as anything these days--the results won't be known for several days. To the media, of course, that doesn't matter. On Sunday morning, they'll declare a winner...
...goes all the way back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who established a policy for presidents to donate their papers and memorabilia to the National Archives. In November 1961, then President Kennedy announced that, in keeping with tradition, he would ask a committee of friends and officials to begin planning the building that would house his papers and mementoes. But Kennedy attached a condition to his announcement; he asked that his presidential library be "closely associated" with his almamater--Harvard. Shortly thereafter, White House officials sat down with University spokesmen to explore the issues...
...years after Kennedy's announcement, it looked like plans for the library were finally beginning to shape up. The Kennedy Library Corporation--a private body headed by Robert F. Kennedy '44--had raisedabout $18 million from 30 million contributors worldwide. The corporation, moreover, had selected a rising young New York architect by the name of I. M. Pei to design the building. The Cambridge City Council and Harvard had both welcomed Pei's plans; officials went happily about their business, waiting for construction to begin. But when the MBTA was forced to find an alternate location for its carbarn, nobody...