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...preparation, said Vatican sources, Paul relied heavily on the advice of three exceptionally conservative prelates of the Roman Curia: Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 77, the retired former chief of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith; Paris-born Archbishop Paul Phillipe, secretary of the congregation; and Bishop Carlo Colombo of Milan, Paul's personal theological adviser...
Rome's Joe Colombo carries out the same principle by furnishing his interior with blocklike boxes that can be interchanged and attached to each other by magnets. Each box in Colombo's "mono-home" is multipurpose, can serve to house a TV or to store kitchen utensils. "A bachelor buys some of these pieces for his home," Colombo explains. "He marries and he adds more pieces; he has children and he adds more pieces-it goes upward, sideways, inward and downward." An unexpected guest arrives? Easy, says he: "You just pull out an extra bed, assemble...
...mining the magic of the impossible, Clarke has uncovered the material for 40 volumes that have sold more than 5,000,000 copies-to say nothing of hundreds of articles in Sunday supplements and magazines ranging from LIFE to Playboy. His energy is impressive. In Colombo, Ceylon, where he has lived for the past twelve years, the author taught himself to be an expert skindiver. He has explored many tropical roofs, and charted and searched sunken wrecks in the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Inevitably, he has also written extensively about underwater exploration...
...clash of views was polite, if pointed. Debré, pressing for debate on the monetary system as a whole, came out formally for an increase in the official price of gold. A long silence ensued. Finally, German Economics Minister Karl Schiller registered his disagreement. Italy's Emilio Colombo sided with the Germans. The U.S.'s Fowler suggested that the real business of the meeting was the SDRs and asked that the group move briskly along in that area...
Recorder's Court began marathon sessions to arraign hundreds of prisoners herded in from the riot areas. In twelve hours, Judge Robert J. Colombo heard more than 600 not-guilty pleas. To keep the arrested off the streets until the city stopped smoking, bonds were set at $25,000 for suspected looters, $200,000 for suspected snipers. Said the harassed judge to one defendant: "You're nothing but a lousy, thieving looter. It's too bad they didn't shoot...