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Adrian VI was the first Pope to face the consequences of Martin Luther's reform movement. But his confession of ecclesiastical errors and call for reform at Nuremberg in 1522 antagonized the German bishops almost more than Luther did-and anyhow came too late. When the Pope died virtually unmourned after a pontificate of 20 months, someone hung laurels on the door of the papal physician who had failed to save his life. For 455 years after that, Adrian's disastrous tenure cast a "Dutch curse" over the possibility of another non-Italian Pope...
BLACK CAMELOT by Duncan Kyle St. Martin's Press; 277pages...
...Martin S. Feldstein '61, professor of Economics, believes that consulting can be professionally beneficial. Feldstein, president of the non-profit National Bureau of Economic Research, noted that "if you're in economic development and you're sitting in Cambridge you won't know anything, because Cambridge is not that underdeveloped." He cited the example of a professor who studies industrial organization, and said that he would "learn a lot more about how a business thinks if they're paying you...If I'm in industrial organization and want to know how Gillette makes it marketing decisions...I couldn...
...Martin Feldstein, a gentle, cherubic fellow, who left the Bronx sidewalks for undergraduate distinction at Harvard and found a home there (with time off to earn a Ph.D. at Oxford). Philosophically, Professor Feldstein is eclectic: liberal enough to have been a counselor to Candidate Carter in '76, sufficiently conservative to have been invited to join President Ford's Council of Economic Advisers in '74 (he turned down the bid). At 38, Marty Feldstein is one of America's three or four brightest young economists, and already he heads the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research...
MARRIED. James Earl Ray, 50, Martin Luther King Jr.'s convicted assassin, who is serving a 99-year jail term; and Anna Sandhu, 31, freelance courtroom artist; he for the first time, she for the second time; in Brushy Mountain state prison, at Petros, Tenn. Tennessee does not permit conjugal visits, a situation Sandhu described as "terrible...