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...some shebang. First as Chief of the U.S. forces and then as commander of all Allied troops, Eisenhower led the most awesome military machine the world had yet seen, eventually to number more than 4,000,000 men. Landing first in North Africa, his men stormed the beaches of Sicily, pushed up through Southern Italy, then finally prepared to attack Hitler's Festung Europa itself. Target: Normandy. D-day was set for June 5, 1944, but bad weather over the English Channel, the worst in years, forced postponement. There was only a tiny gleam of hope?better weather forecast...
...intriguing sequence was first mentioned by Fibonacci in his book Liber Abaci, which was published in Pisa in A.D. 1202. To solve a hypothetical problem about the multiplication of rabbits,-he used the numerical series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, etc. Each number following the first 1 consisted of the sum of the two previous numbers. Fibonacci attached no great significance to the sequence, and it was generally ignored through the years by all but dedicated mathematicians. Then, in the early 1960s, Brother Alfred Brousseau, who teaches math at St. Mary's College...
Mystical Connection. In nature, male bees reproduce Fibonaccially, and the number of spiral floret formations visible in many sunflowers, spiraled scales on a pine cone and segments on the surface of a pineapple have been found to match Fibonacci numbers. The pattern of the branching of many trees, the position of leaves on the branches, and petal formation of many flowers are also described by numbers in the Fibonacci series...
Pope Paul VI is a leader who loves to spring a surprise or set a new record. Last week he did both by announcing that he intends to create 35 new cardinals-the largest number ever named at one time-thereby raising membership in the Sacred College to an alltime record of 136. In his six years as Pope, Paul has elevated 89 prelates to the college, more than any other pontiff in history...
...named last week*-to be formally elevated at a consistory April 28-are from 19 different nations. Eight are Italians, but the four Americans chosen raise the number of U.S. cardinals to ten-another record. The U.S. appointments to a degree reflect the spectrum of the Pope's selections: three moderate conservatives, one progressive liberal; two of them were chosen primarily because they head sees traditionally ruled by cardinals, two others presumably because of personal accomplishment...