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This austere regime belongs to a 54-year-old American woman, one of the nuns in the Camaldolese Convent in the fashionable Aventine Hill section of Rome. Her name is Julia Crotta; to her sister nuns, who may now and then hear her cough or murmur but never see her, she is known as Sister Nazarena...
...total damage occurred in New Jersey. Atlantic City's exposed Steel Pier was partially swept away, stranding the former "Miss America" ballroom. Hundreds of homes were ruined on Long Beach Island, which was sliced into five islets by the waves. At devastated Sea Isle City, a three-story convent was taken over by the ocean just after nuns abandoned it. Some 2,000 people evacuated towns between Atlantic City and Cape May. A 35-room wing of the million-dollar Atlantic Sands Motel was shattered in Rehoboth Beach, Del., just part of that resort city's $50 million...
After an hour at the convent, Ethel's eleven-car motorcade headed off for a visit to a hospital for crippled children, then back to the embassy, where Ethel changed into a green suit (with matching hairbows) before lunch at Tokyo's Zen Buddhist Temple of the Green Pines. There, Japanese Politician Yasuhiro Nakasone had arranged for a three-hour, 13-course, all-vegetable meal. Kneeling in the approved fashion on a grass mat before a low table, Ethel accepted a set of Munakata prints and a pair of bamboo stilts-one of seven pairs that will...
...wound did not really heal until this century. Yet as far back as 1852, Britain's John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote The Idea of a University, a plea for "cultivation of the intellect." Newman held that a university "is not a convent, not a seminary; it is a place to fit men of the world for the world...
...just to make gin money. Little do they know that the burlapidated old bag is (violins can now be heard sobbing on the sound track) An Unwed Mother. Yes, the dear old girl is living on Gordon's and garbage, and sending every lousy nickel to a Spanish convent, where her wide-eyed, ever-loving daughter lives with some kind old nuns who teach her to be a lady and shield her from the awful truth about her birth. Apple Annie? The girl never heard of her. She thinks her mother is the worthy Mrs. E. Worthington Manville...