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...much to look forward to, is it?" 1947: Barbara Hutton, 34, was having some more despite her famed swearing-off statement of last April. ("You can't go on being a fool forever," she said then.) The synthetically svelte heiress married her fourth in a snowy Swiss town, Chur. The groom was a Lithuanian prince-handsome Igor Troubetzkoy...
...firm grew to represent 500 titles and adds 100 new works each year. Although the cassettes can be purchased, most of the company's 30,000 subscribers rent them at $6.50 to $16.50 for 30 days, then return the copies in postpaid cartons. The most requested books: Winston Chur chill's six-volume The Second World War, (148.5 hours, 99 cassettes; $116.50), Irving Stone's The Origin (30 hours, 20 tapes; $21) and the novels of Somerset Maugham, along with such current thrillers as Triple and Free Fall in Crimson...
Died. Prince Xavier de Borbon y Parma, 87, patriarch of the Carlist family of pretenders to the Spanish throne; of a heart attack; in Chur, Switzerland. Distant cousins of King Juan Carlos, Xavier's family fought and lost two civil wars for the crown during the 19th century; the prince was heir to their romantic lost cause. Although the Roman Catholic Carlists supported Franco during the Spanish Civil War, the generalissimo refused to recognize their dynastic claims and subsequently expelled Prince Xavier from the country. In recent years, a family feud between Xavier's sons-Leftist Prince Hugo...
Inside the imposing episcopal palace of the Alpine town of Chur, Switzerland, 112 cardinals, archbishops and bishops representing 18 countries gathered last week to discuss the crisis in the Roman Catholic priesthood. The delegates to the second Europe-wide symposium of the Catholic hierarchy had hoped for an atmosphere of ecclesiastical calm. But out side the palace were 70 priests (some of them in sport coats and red ties), part of a protesting "shadow symposium" that had been hastily convened at a nearby hostel. Bullhorn in hand, French Dominican Jean Cardonnel, a fiery leftist whose Lenten address helped inspire last...
...symposium, Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, one of the most progressive prelates in Europe, read a letter from Swiss-born Theologian Hans Küng warning that an increasing number of priests were determined to carry on with church renewal-with or without the bishops. Although the Chur delegates sat stonily silent as the plea was read, they did approve a cautious statement acknowledging that priests want an "authentic co-responsibility" within the church. But the bishops did not comment on the demands of the radicals, who made it clear they intend that their voice be heard...