Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-declared intention of internationalizing the Curia. Two years ago, 20 of the 24 highest posts in the Vatican bureaucracy were held by Italian prelates; now, only eight top posts are held by Italians. "This is what we have been demanding," said John Cardinal Wright of Pittsburgh, one of four Americans who received their red birettas last week. "The Pope is meeting us more than halfway." Cardinal Wright was appointed to succeed Villot as Prefect of the Congregation of the Clergy, a job that grows more sensitive as the clergy grow more restive...
...article of faith. Their objective is to obstruct the patient's progress to an institution, and they can point to some conditional evidence of success. The annual commitment rate to state mental hospitals from San Francisco, for example, has dropped from 2,887 to 119 in the past four years-a decline in which the city's expanding complex of emergency-treatment centers was a major factor. Grady Memorial Hospital, which opened a crisis center in 1968, now treats 5,000 psychiatric emergencies a year. The hospital's 36-bed mental ward, which previously was inadequate...
...next four shows in the series, taped last spring at weekly intervals, resemble Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Returning members of the studio audience discuss their withdrawal symptoms ("It was a bath of fire," moaned one man) and other problems (weight gain, anxiety). They also hear testimonials from ex-smokers. In addition, to make his message more visual and urgent, Frederickson projects film of cancer-riddled lungs or of an emphysema patient who does not have enough breath to blow out a match. From time to time, a Laugh-In-style "crawl" message crosses the bottom of the TV screen with...
Billy Prince rose rapidly and soon established sovereignty over the farthest reaches of the realm. He burnished his Armour by moving into many new fields, like pizza pies and power shovels. Into the coffers, every year for the past four years, poured more than $2 billion. All this good fortune seemed too good to be true...
...just advanced significantly. Stockholders of one of Germany's smallest but soundest automakers, NSU Motorenwerke, voted to merge with a Volkswagen subsidiary, Auto Union. They thus formed a combine that could rank on its own as Germany's third largest automaker. NSU, which turns out four basic models, will contribute more than $140 million of the subsidiary's total $400 million in sales this year, and a valuable reputation for innovation as well. It devised the highly efficient Wankel engine, which powers the popular new RO-80 sedan (price...