Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preference for Sea. It was conceivably the longest day that Paul had ever spent. The pilgrimage began shortly after 5 in the morning-after midnight New York time-when Paul, with an entourage that included seven cardinals, a dozen other papal aides, and 60 newsmen and photographers, boarded a chartered Alitalia DC-8 at Rome's Fiumi-cmo Airport. On the nine-hour flight Paul slept only a little, played the considerate host. He left his isolated forward cabin twice to visit the newsmen, handed out commemorative medals,' amiably posed for pictures and answered some questions. "I know...
...morning was brisk, bright and blustery when the papal jet landed at Kennedy Airport. There was the customary exchange of greetings with a phalanx of dignitaries, and soon Paul was bundled off on a 24-mile, two-hour motorcade through Queens and Manhattan (including parts of Negro and Spanish Harlem), where more than 2,000,000 exuberant but respectful New Yorkers crushed to the curbstones. In some places the cheering onlookers were packed five and ten deep along the streets, and Fifth Avenue was a solid sea of faces. But embarrassingly long stretches of the papal route were almost bereft...
...every main road to the airport for one hour-commercial passengers notwithstanding -during the Pope's arrival. Police even arranged to have all commercial air traffic for that day rerouted so it would not fly over any New York City streets or buildings that were on the papal itinerary...
Behind Second Base. At the stadium, where at this time of year preparations are usually being made for a World Series rather than a world event, carpenters and clergymen moved in to replace the grounds keepers, carefully hung papal decorations about the upper decks, and constructed a super-secure elevated wooden altar behind second base, with fire-retarding carpeting on the 13 steps and extra steel reinforcement in the scaffolding...
...crusade "unfortunate." Other Jesuits noted that Arrupe did not reflect a consensus of the society. "I think his speech was naive," said one Jesuit professor in Rome. "It was a speech by a man who doesn't understand the situation. His language was that of the old Roman papal bulls, which talked about going out under the banner of Christ. Of course, if you take it literally, it's absurd...