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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Daniel Maguire, an ex-priest and ethics professor at Marquette University: "He seems to see the world as Poland writ large." Poland's bishops hammer out any differences in private and then unite under the Primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, in order to survive. This Polish Pope is accustomed to that type of collegiality, which means top-down obedience, not ecclesiastical democracy. No one knows how it will go when an international Synod of Bishops meets in Rome the fall of 1980 to discuss family life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Pope Who Sings | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer stepped dejectedly out onto the balcony, there was only a desultory round of applause. His message could not have been less triumphant: Berlinguer acknowledged what he called an "appreciable variation with respect to our exceptional advances of 1976." When someone dutifully unfurled the red hammer-and-sickle flag from the balcony, a disgusted voice piped up loudly from the crowd: "Leave it at half-mast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Hammer and Sickle at Half-Mast | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Maxwell's Hammer...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Black South African Activist Will Receive Honorary Degree | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...President, she explains with unintended irony, "was trying to hammer a point home. It wasn't anything personal, as they say in The Godfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter vs. Corporations | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

Lenz owns the University record in the hammer throw (208-2) and also throws the 35-1b, weight in the winter. Sprinter Salvo's speciality is the 60-yd. dash (indoors), an event he won at the Greater Bostons this year. McNulty, a lanky distance man, own the school record in the 1500 (3:48.1) and also captains the cross-country team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Spring Sports Captains Named | 5/18/1979 | See Source »

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