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...perch in the Golden Cage belongs to Speaker Celso Lisboa, 45. The owner of a private school, Lisboa got himself elected in 1950, proved himself a warm friend of the thousands of school-age children in Rio who are deprived of an education by lack of buildings and teachers. He pushed through a bill authorizing the city administration to pay private-school board and tuition for schoolless children. When the bill passed, Lisboa himself bought a second private school, now collects $40,000 a month under the terms of his own bill. Running for re-election as speaker last March...
...Died. Celso Cardinal Costantini, 82, Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, longtime apostolic delegate in China; in Rome. The death of Cardinal Costantini reduced the College of Cardinals to 54 and its Italian membership...
...Future. A lot of people-including his brother Celso, also a physician-are urging Stapp to quit. They fear that, while he may pull out of each ride successfully, the cumulative damage to his system may be dangerous. Stapp pooh-poohs such talk, is determined to go on riding his rocket sled. He knows that what he is learning by pressing to the edge of inhuman endurance will hold true even when today's planes are in the museums and tomorrow's speeds have dwindled to slow-motion space crawling...
...sacred art, which originated with Christian society, possesses its own ends, from which it can never diverge." Although the statement also deplored stereotyped religious art, Vatican spokesmen admitted that it was aimed principally at modern artists who find church decoration a new and challenging technical medium. Wrote Archbishop Celso Costantini: "We are at present in a Babel of art ... The clamor caused by Matisse decorating the chapel of Vence has not yet died down . . . Chagall would like to paint a Catholic chapel . . . and Picasso has been toying with the idea of decorating a Communist chapel-... It is high time...
...Vatican Prelates Celso Costantini of Propaganda Fide, Alfredo Ottaviani of the Holy Office, and Valerio Valeri of the State Secretariat...