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During a typically crowded and varied schedule at Castel Gandolfo (including messages to 600 French railroad workers, to a leathermakers' congress, to an international youth meeting), Pope Pius XII called for austerity on two notable counts...
Jesuits are encouraged to develop their special talents or interests, ranging from archaeology to automation, from deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls to spotting the latest comet in the telescopes of the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo. Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, was a paleontologist of world renown who unearthed conclusive evidence that the so-called Peking man discovered in China in 1929 was human. Father Francis J. Heyden of Georgetown University is a recognized expert on eclipses. Many
...intercom. (Scarpia: "Let's turn up the sound!") Having killed Comrade Scarpia (Baritone William Chapman), Tosca hopes to spring her lover from jail and cries: "Once we are at the airport . . . we'll be free." In the end, instead of hurling herself off the battlements of Castel Sant' Angelo, Tosca stabs herself...
While Harlow H. Curtice, 63, president of General Motors at $775,400 a year (take-home pay: $121,689), was being received in private audience by Pope Pius XII at Castel Gondolfo, Italy, his big brother LeRoy, 68, a G.M. paint and metal inspector, relaxed in his frame house in Lansing, Mich., happily anticipating his first $63 monthly company pension check after retirement. When kid brother Harlow retires in two years, his pension will come to about $68,000 a year. Said LeRoy: "I wouldn't want his job. Too many headaches. On that job your brain works...
...Senate passed a bill authorizing payment of $964,199.35 to the Vatican in full settlement of damages suffered by the Pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo when it was accidentally bombed by U.S. planes during World...