Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marauding Saracens, have been fitted out with heaters for winter and air conditioning for summer, divided into a foyer, a circular salon opening on a library and studio, a dining room, bedroom and chapel. And from the wide terrace behind the battlements of the 100-ft.-high tower, the Pontiff has a splendid view of the Eternal City. So pleasant is the prospect that the Pope may elect to spend every summer there...
...diplomats of 68 nations assembled to congratulate him on his forthcoming 80th birthday (Nov. 25) and the third anniversary of his coronation, Pope John XXIII unburdened himself of a sobering exhortation. "Grounds for fear for the future of mankind are not lacking," said the Pontiff. This, he added, makes it all the more urgent for men to "use well the time given them to act in favor of peace, of civilization and of true progress...
...Vatican City and of the church's tribunal for indulgences; of pneumonia; in his Vatican apartment. An Italian nobleman as well as a prince of the church, Cardinal Canali in 1958 mounted the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to crown the present, peasant-born Pontiff...
...Sovereign Pontiff John XXIII has kindly deigned to call as members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences the following professors...
...Porta Pertusa. "What a pity," he sighed, as he saw the ramshackle remains of the 60-foot tower. "This is such a lovely place." Within weeks, workmen began restoring the 500-year-old structure, which will be equipped with an elevator for what insiders said would become the Pontiff's summer retreat for meditation and for private audiences with relatives and intimates...