Word: die
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...propose to die poor" said Pope Paul VI in his last will and testament, handwritten in 1965 and then set aside, to be opened on his death. Last week, as the world's Roman Catholics mourned their Pontiff, Paul's final directive was released. It exemplified both the simplicity and the spirituality of the man. Paul left most of his modest possessions to the Holy See. He also made some requests. Referring to the ecumenical movement he did so much to foster, he urged: "The work of drawing closer to our separated brethren should continue with great understanding, with great...
Eventually, a growing power struggle between the Cathar Clergue family and a prominent Catholic family blew the whole affair into the tribunals of the Inquisition. Father Pierre and his brother Bernard, the corrupt bailiff of the town, were sentenced to prison, there to die soon after. One Cathar-a not-so-perfect parfait given to shady business dealings and fornication-was burned at the stake. Beatrice de Planissoles, the chatelaine, was released along with her latest swain, another priest-but Beatrice was sentenced to wear the yellow cross of repentant heretics. As for the zealous bishop, he went...
...Paul had expressed such views more often, his reign might have been less anguished. His exhortations might have seemed less imperious, and some measure of reciprocal understanding might have reached him, rekindling the hope and the courage that seemed to die in him as his pontificate wore on. The papacy weighs on its bearer like a cross of centuries, and Paul VI had to carry his alone...
...quiet hospital in suburban New Jersey, 13 patients die mysteriously during 1965 and 1966. Ten years later, a reporter for the New York Times, M.A. (for Myron Abba) Farber, reveals that mostly empty vials of a powerful and potentially lethal drug called curare were found in the locker of a certain "Doctor X." The state begins to investigate. What some experts believe to be traces of curare are found in exhumed bodies, and a grand jury indicts the man Farber, in his stories, had carefully called only Doctor X?Surgeon Mario Jascalevich?for allegedly murdering five patients...
...resulting "sexism trial" has titillated West Germany for weeks. The daily newspaper Die Welt polled readers on what they thought of Stern's cover. Said Actress Elke Sommer, 36: "I'm ashamed when the photos are almost obscene, but we live in a free country." Insults flew between the chief complainant and editor of Emma magazine, Alice Schwarzer, 35, ("Male perfidy," said she), and Stern Editor Henri Nannen, 64, ("Joyless gray skirts," said he). During one session in a Hamburg court, Nannen stirred a row when he whisked out huge cheesecake photos of two of the plaintiffs, one showing Actress...