Word: paul
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Rarely if ever had the prospect of a foreigner's visit so stirred the country, but then the visit itself had no precedent. His Aer Lingus 747 was to touch down at Boston's Logan Airport-and then John Paul II would be the first Pope in history to tour the U.S. Huge throngs would gather at his every stop: some several hundred thousand were expected for Monday's Mass on Boston Common; as many as 5 million for his stops in New York City, which would include overflow audiences for Masses at Yankee and Shea stadiums...
They were coming to see not just the head of the world's 710 million Roman Catholics but a man who during his first year as Pontiff has demonstrated that he is unlike any of his modern predecessors. Already this year John Paul has toured Mexico and his native Poland, hugging and blessing peasants, kissing babies and stirring vast outpourings of human emotion with folksy homilies. In his unique fashion, he is rapidly becoming parish priest to the world, and this mission could only be furthered by his U.S. visit. Said the Rev. James Finlay, president of Fordham University...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation yesterday elected Paul E. Gray, MIT's chancellor since 1971, as the MIT's 14th president...
...Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass) told a seminar sponsored by the Council for African Studies yesterday that an American foreign policy modeled after the interests of Africans would ensure the self-interest of the United States...
...wasn't Gaul that Pope John Paul II conquered this week--it was the hearts of the 400,000 Bostonians who turned out Monday to see him on his motorcade route and in Boston Common on a rainy, chilly...