Word: gemelli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that "I was afraid to accept this nomination," and on at least three occasions in the first 24 hours he wept openly: in the conclave, upon his election; during his first appearance on the balcony; and the following evening when he drove in an open sedan to Rome's Gemelli Clinic to visit a friend, Bishop Andre-Marie Deskur, who was recovering from a heart attack. He made some remarks to the crowd at the hospital, but when he was finished he forgot to impart the apostolic blessing; an escorting prelate had to remind him to do it. At that...
...addition to Mancuso, police arrested Domenico Barbino, 26, a dapper, handsome hospital orderly at Rome's Policlinico Gemelli, who had moved to the capital from Calabria ten years ago. Police suspect that Barbino dealt in drugs, a sideline that brought him into contact with young Getty and his circle of hippie friends who clustered around Rome's swinging Piazza Navona...