Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MONSIGNOR PAOLO MARELLA, 64, Italian with a broad background in papal diplomacy. Since 1953 he has held Pope John's former post as papal nuncio in Paris...
...REVEREND ARCADIO LARRAONA, 72, born in Oteiza de la Solana, Spain, and a member of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.* Father Larraona has been teaching, writing and lecturing in Rome for 40 years, where he has held a number of posts in the Curia. As the first Claretian cardinal in history, he will be permitted by his order to change his brown robes for scarlet, provided that they are of wool...
...statistics, is adorned with more than 400 speaking parts, about 10,000 extras, 100,000 costumes, at least 300 sets. One of them, the circus built for the chariot race in Rome's Cinecitta, was the largest ever made for any movie. It covered 18 acres, held 10,000 people and 40,000 tons of sand, took a year to complete, and cost $1,000,000. The race itself, which runs only nine minutes on the screen, ran three months before the cameras and cost another million. Three months before the shooting stopped, Production Manager Henry Henigson...
...Huff and his colleagues have proved that the defense can win ball games. All year long. Giant tacklers have been setting up touchdowns for their own offense, then digging in to stop enemy drives. When the Steelers were moving for the winning touchdown in an early game, the line held twice with 3 in. to go. The man who scored the deciding touchdown that beat the Steelers, 21-16: Sam Huff (on a recovered fumble...
...Russian press has long held the distinction of being the world's dullest-a distinction in which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, one Communist who believes that party pills go down best with a little sugar, takes scant pleasure. No sooner had he taken over in the Kremlin than Khrushchev began trying to brighten up Soviet journalism: dull writing, he warned a conference of editors six years ago, "must be driven from the newspaper page." To do the driving, Khrushchev employed an able newsman: apple-cheeked Aleksei I. Adzhubei, now 35, who also happens...