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...familiar to the world. The 112 Cardinal-electors again received the summons to Rome, their trip made easier by the fact that Rome airport employees broke off their strike in respect for the Pontiff. The conclave to choose John Paul's successor will begin on the second earliest day permitted???Oct. 14. The Latin American bishops' conference, a once-a-decade meeting scheduled to begin Oct. 12 in Puebla, Mexico, meanwhile, was postponed. Though John Paul had decided not to attend, the meeting would have given the first clues to the policy of his newborn pontificate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: The September Pope | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...imports be carried in U.S. vessels. He permitted???perhaps encouraged?vigorous antitrust action by his Justice Department, notably against AT&T. By taking blunt exception to a General Motors price hike, he forced a modest rollback. U.S. Steel, too, reconsidered a price increase when Ford grumbled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Economy: Trying to Turn It Around | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

...Alanson Bigelow Houghton, wife of the U. S. Ambassador, was of course responsible for the presentation of U. S. maids and matrons, daughters and wives either of members of the diplomatic corps or of intrinsically potent fathers, husbands. By special dispensation of the Lord Chamberlain, these gentlemen were permitted???for the first time?to peer from the door of an anteroom upon the ceremony. None were themselves presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Courts Imperial | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

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