Word: paule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Archbishop Benelli is easily the most visible personage in the Vatican today and, next to the Pope, the most powerful. Technically, he is only the Vatican's Deputy Secretary of State, but the force of circumstances and the good will of Pope Paul have thrust him into such prominence that Benelli is, in effect, the Pope's Prime Minister. His role originated in Paul's sweeping reform of the Curia 18 months ago, when the Vatican Secretary of State was awarded, ex officio, special responsibilities in the Roman Curia, the church's administrative body. In theory...
...wipe out illiteracy in underdeveloped nations by upgrading the educational programs of Catholic missions. Last week he flew off to the Ivory Coast to dedicate a new seminary in Abidjan. The trip was expected to take him to other African countries on still another act of service for Paul VI: exploring a possible papal visit to that continent later this year...
...Little Steadiness. The issue comes down to the question of whether or not the board's independence should be curtailed. Paul McCracken, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, would prefer much less short-term monetary tinkering by the board. Like many others, he feels that the board would do better to pay more attention to developing long-term policies for steady economic growth. McCracken would also like to see the Reserve coordinate its policy more closely with the White House. He would probably not go as far as some former Johnson economists, who argue that...
History, Jean-Paul Sartre once observed, is a bad joke played by the present upon the past. The perception has more to do with the inevitable bias of historians than with history itself. It emphasizes, however, the value of the practice that allowed a suitable interval to elapse before the present tried to judge the past. Today Presidents have taken to employing historians as personal aides, partly in the hope that they will be written up lovingly. Sometimes they are-witness Arthur Schlesinger's study of John F. Kennedy. And sometimes the joke is on the Chief Executive. Eric...
...three Crimson hopefuls are Pat Coleman, captain Howie Chatterton, and Paul Catinella, who have lost a combined total of only six bouts this year, while winning...