Word: montini
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When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his aide and preferred successor, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, was ineligible for the papacy because he was not a Cardinal. As a stopgap, the Cardinal-electors turned to the apparently innocuous Angelo Giuseppi Roncalli, 76. Roncalli, of course, became Pope John XXIII, whose Vatican Council set in motion epochal reforms in the church. But Montini, who was made a Cardinal by John, finally got his turn after John died in 1963, and it was his dogged bureaucratic talents, as Pope Paul VI, that made the sweeping new policies stick. Thus, writes Wilton Wynn...
...last year's starting unit. This group had difficulty getting untracked last weekend. This is the squad's biggest question mark and potentially its biggest problem. UMASS OFFENSIVE LINE: The Minutemen's strong point, with a line that has an average weight of almost 250 lbs. Sophomore center Pete Montini is the lightest, at 240, but he just might be the best. This is the key to UMass's fortunes. DEFENSIVE LINE: No starters return from last year's team, and that could mean big problems for Harvard against a very big UMass offensive line. There's some talent among...
...Archbishop Marcinkus had enjoyed a steady rise in the Vatican hierarchy before the scandal broke. After taking a degree in canon law at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, Marcinkus joined the Vatican's State Secretariat in 1952 and soon caught the eye of Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, who was to become Pope Paul VI in 1963. The new Pontiff made the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), burly American cleric part of an intimate circle of papal advisers. In 1964 the Pontiff selected Marcinkus, a born organizer, to be his advanceman for trips abroad. During the visit of Paul...