Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yangtse, where there is opencast mining, I saw 220 peasants hacking iron ore out of an open hillside and breaking it to pieces with hammers. Another 460 were busy constructing a dozen primitive blast furnaces and preparing a steelworks as well. 'Next year we shall make our own farm machinery,' I was told, 'buying the engine but doing the rest ourselves.' In Honan ... I saw 170 peasants busily making primitive agricultural implements-including handmade ball bearings for the wheels of their carts...
...confidence in the ever onwardness and upwardness of history. Today the papacy and the Catholic Church are immensely stronger. Part of the story is told in numbers: during Pius XII's reign, Catholics throughout the world grew from 388,402,610 to 496,512,000 despite attrition in Iron Curtain countries. The church's strengthened spiritual posture was marked by the fact that under Pius 33 saints were canonized,*more than under any other Pope in this century. Its political success can be judged from the fact that, during Pius' reign, Christian Democratic parties and Catholie statesmen...
...ancient, ponderous rituals began. Swiss Guards drew a heavy iron chain across the Gandolfo Palace entrance, and in Rome the great bronze doors of St. Peter's clanged shut. Attendants removed the flannel pajamas in which the Pope died and dressed the body in a white silk cassock and an ermine-trimmed crimson velvet cape. Sister Pasqualina, the German nun who had been the Pope's devoted housekeeper, had a small ritual of her own. She assembled the Pope's half-dozen pet birds and, carrying their cage and two suitcases, left for an unannounced destination...
Locked Door. The conclave will begin Oct. 25, end only when a new Pope is chosen. By week's end it appeared that perhaps 50 of the 55 surviving members of the Sacred College (full strength: 70) would attend the conclave. Of the Iron Curtain cardinals, only Poland's Wyszynski seemed likely to come to Rome. Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, living in the American legation in Budapest, and Yugoslavia's Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, ailing and confined to his village, almost surely cannot attend. Other doubtful participants: France's Georges Cardinal Grente, 86, and Chile...
Speaking in favor of the N.S.A., Paul E. Sigmund, Jr. 5G, former vice-President of the International Student Association, listed four areas in which the organization's efforts are beneficial to Harvard. He cited the area of academic freedom, the bringing of students from behind the Iron Curtain to U.S. campuses, work done for integration and racial equality, and the area of student government relations with the University...