Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Albany Tower, this is 163. I'm in the vicinity of Albany flying VFR [Visual Flight Rules] on a training flight from Mansfield, Mass., and I think I'm lost. Over...
...ponderous electric hobby horse, on which Calvin Coolidge took frequent constitutionals while in the White House, was presented to the Forbes Library in Coolidge's home town, Northampton, Mass., where Coolidge's widow Grace dwelt until her death in 1957. The 220-volt contraption, on which Silent Cal often played cowboy with the chief of his personal Secret Service guards, is triple-gaited and can also pitch as if going over jumps. It will be put to pasture in the library's Coolidge Room...
...casual tourist in Rome last weekend might have come away convinced that English had been made the official language of the Vatican. Even Pope John XXIII, coached for the past year, prepared to use the newest in his vocabulary of nine languages. And to Rome a mass pilgrimage of American Catholic clergy brought three cardinals (New York's Spellman, Boston's Gushing, Philadelphia's O'Hara), five dozen archbishops and bishops, and scores of other U.S. churchmen for a typically American celebration: Homecoming Day. Most were old grads returning to their alma mater-Rome...
...Holy See to furnish land and buildings, U.S. bishops to provide funds. Quartered in a converted convent on Via dell'Umilta (Humility Street), the school opened hopefully in 1859 with twelve students from seven states (three of the twelve later became archbishops). Pope Pius IX came himself for Mass, Communion and breakfast (including ice cream and punch); delighted students gave three rousing cheers for George Washington and three more for the Pope...
Bells wake today's 281 students at 5:30 a.m. for prayers, meditation, Mass and breakfast before they leave for the Gregorian University and four hours of lectures in Latin. Afternoons and evenings are occupied with athletics, study periods, spiritual reading and chapel; on Thursdays only, the young seminarians are permitted to travel downtown singly; other days they must go in groups of three or more...