Word: giovannis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Giovanni Porzio, 88, longtime Italian senator and Vice Premier (1948-50), an operatic Neapolitan trial lawyer whose curiosity for peccadilloes and "crimes of honor" led him to defend bored playboys and cuckolded peasants, successfully arguing his last case at the age of 85; in Naples, Italy...
Canceling all audiences, Pope John retreated to his recently restored summer apartments in the Vatican's 9th century Tower of San Giovanni for a week of prayer. On three days last week, every employee, cleric and layman alike, in the Vatican and diocesan chancery of Rome attended special services to offer prayers for the council's success. In dioceses around the world, Catholics joined in special novenas, asking the blessing of God upon the deliberations of the fathers. Uncounted millions of Protestants, asked by their leaders to pray for the council, prayed that it become a landmark...
...away from the daily hurly-burly that sometimes invades even the Vatican. Pope John XXIII has a lofty new retreat in which to meditate. The top three floors of the 9th century tower of San Giovanni, built by Pope Leo IV as a defense against marauding Saracens, have been fitted out with heaters for winter and air conditioning for summer, divided into a foyer, a circular salon opening on a library and studio, a dining room, bedroom and chapel. And from the wide terrace behind the battlements of the 100-ft.-high tower, the Pontiff has a splendid view...
...problems raised by bishops in council discussion. Chairman of the secretariat is moderate Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, the Vatican Secretary of State and longtime 1933-58) apostolic delegate to the U.S. But also on the secretariat are such moderates and liberals as Chicago's Albert Meyer, Milan's Giovanni Montini, Julius Dopfner of Munich, Leo Jozef Suenens of Malines-Bruxelles...
...Died. Giovanni Achille Gaggia, 66, onetime Milanese cafe owner who put the press in espresso coffee in 1936 by adding a mechanical lever to his old drip machine to pressure hot water, steam and coffee into the thick syrupy brew that became an Italian specialty, after World War II started the first manufacture of pressure coffee machines; of complications following a fall; in Milan...