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...John XXIII elevates 23 prelates to the College of Cardinals this week are an elaborate series of ceremonies taking place over a four-day period. First comes a secret consistory at which the Pope recites to the old cardinals the names of those he proposes to elevate. The cardinals nod their assent. Immediately, messengers fan out to deliver the biglietto-the letter informing each cardinal-elect of his elevation (tradition demands that he feign surprise on receiving the letter). Two days later the new cardinals join the Pope at an "intimate" consistory, during which he hands each one the scarlet...
...Preference has swung toward humanities majors, says Dr. Joseph Ceithaml, dean of students at the medical school: "If two men apply, and both have the required basic scientific courses behind them, and one was a philosophy major and the other solely a premed student, the philosophy man gets the nod." In the past, students headed toward medicine piled up huge backlogs of scientific courses, "which they could very well have done without...
Iowa: Democratic Incumbent Herschel Loveless' corn-belt syntax and his rumpled common-man appeal, plus rural discontent with Ezra Taft Benson, all combined to give Loveless the nod over Republican William G. Murray, whose polished professorial phrases were largely wasted on Iowa ears...
...Nod Car. In Petoskey, Mich., Policeman Charles Laubrich paid a $25 fine after he fell asleep at the wheel of a patrol car and crashed into a utility pole...
Because of the undeniable popularity of Kennedy, Republicans were not too eager to run against him. The nod finally went to Vincent J. Celeste, an East Boston lawyer and one-time aid to former Governor Christian Herter. He has never held an elective office and lists as his experience the fact that he ran for Congress (against Kennedy) in 1950 and was an alternate delegate to the 1956 Republican national Convention...