Word: fribourgs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WILEY NEWBOLD Fribourg, Switzerland
...list was the elevation of three European priests who have never governed a diocese and probably never will. Belgian Monsignor Joseph Cardijn was founder of the worldwide Young Christian Workers movement, a pioneer in theologically exploring the role of the layman in the church. Monsignor Charles Journet of Fribourg is a respected ecumenical theologian. Father Giulio Bevilacqua was the Pope's confessor during his seminary days, but now serves as pastor of a poor church in the northern Italian city of Brescia. Bevilacqua assured his parishioners that he would continue to wear his plain black cassock, stay...
...Russians and demanded cash instead. Whether half of the wheat would move in U.S. vessels, a condition that Kennedy laid down to make the deal politically more palatable but that the Russians resisted because of higher U.S. shipping costs, was not known. That would depend, said Continental President Michel Fribourg, on whether "ships can be made available...
...Fribourg kept on buying until every room in his mansion was a small museum in itself. He lived surrounded by rich inlay, intricately carved paneling, rare porcelains, precious furniture. He could point to a table and say. "That belonged to Marie Antoinette." A magnificent desk with inlay of metal and tortoise shell in ebony had belonged to Queen Victoria. Fribourg's bed was one that Napoleon had had made for himself and Marie Louise; it bears the date of their wedding. Fribourg owned 18th century Gobelin tapestries and Sèvres china designed by Boucher; he had 70 rare...
...Possible Record. Modern inheritance taxes put collectors in a dilemma; in a large estate, if a collection is bequeathed intact, the heirs must scrape up and give the Government cash equal to as much as 61% of the value of the art-even more in some cases. Fribourg ordered that after his death his collection should be auctioned; if he had left it to his wife, she would have had to raise cash in the millions to keep it. He lamented that he would not be present at the auction. "This will be the biggest sale of the century," Fribourg...