Word: pontiff
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...order of Tennis Ace Bjorn Borg, 25, Golfer Arnold Palmer, 51, and former Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali, 39. Now his Cleveland-based International Management Group has taken on a client of an even higher order: Pope John Paul II. McCormack is not seeking aftershave endorsements for the Pontiff, but he will try to make sure that the British Catholic Church will not lose money on John Paul II's visit to England, Scotland and Wales next spring. McCormack will take a 20% commission on the sale of what he describes as "various piety items such as commemorative plates, crystal...
Smiling as he walked toward his black, open-top limousine, the Pontiff stopped for an instant when greeted by a young girl bearing a welcome-back bouquet. Due for a second operation by month's end, the Pontiff was nevertheless in high spirits. "You think you can now boast that you made me a new person," he reportedly told his doctors, "but I'm the same rascal I have always been." -By E. Graydon Carter
...recovery-and, as usual with any job he tackled, doing it robustly. Doctors at Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic removed the 26 stitches they had inserted after a would-be assassin's bullet ripped through the Pope's abdomen on May 13. The Pontiff received visitors, made brief voyages to a nearby armchair and walked in the corridor outside the tenth-floor four-room suite, where he had been moved from the hospital's intensive-care unit...
...Agca continued to puzzle the Italian police, the Pope was announcing his forgiveness for the "brother" who had shot him. The Pontiff was absent from the Vatican window where he normally delivers a Sunday blessing to pilgrims, but his tape-recorded voice was there instead ringing clear over the huge square...
...Producer Jeff Gralnick: "All of us learned a lesson with James Brady." The networks also had the problem of reporting live on a story that was unfolding in Rome while most of their foreign crews were concentrated in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Early medical bulletins on the Pontiff swung wildly between Vatican reports that he was "serene and conscious" and hospital characterizations of his condition as "grave." Says NBC News Senior Executive Producer Les Crystal: "There was the problem of getting accurate and complete information. It's hard enough in your own country, but it was compounded...