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Waiting for Paul in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria was Lyndon Johnson. Officially, the first meeting of Pontiff and President on U.S. soil was expected to last about half an hour, but it was unthinkable that a normally voluble Italian and an incurably loquacious Texan could stick to schedule-so the two men, assisted by two interpreters, talked on for 46 minutes about Viet Nam, India, Pakistan, the Dominican Republic, the conquest of hunger. Paul praised recent U.S. efforts to advance the cause of civil rights. Johnson thought that the Pope's visit would provide a much needed...
Boards & Bomb Experts. For a man of the Pontiff's age (68), it was a tense and trying ordeal. To ease it, a special 1964 Lincoln Continental limousine was lengthened a full yard (to 20 ft. 10 in.) by a Chicago manufacturer and fitted with running boards so that it could carry 13 people-including six security guards. It was equipped with a battery-powered public-address system, a papal seat that could be raised seven inches, fluorescent lamps to illuminate the Pope, and a bubble-top covering (non-bulletproof) in case of rain. More than 75 television cameras...
...Crusade. To counteract the great conspiracy of the godless, Arrupe urged the council to draw up a basic plan for "worldwide coordinated action," to be followed by Catholics in a crusade against atheism, under "absolute obedience to the Pope." The Supreme Pontiff would then "assign various fields of labor to everyone, in order that the entire people of God may give itself vigorously to this task...
...procreation, expresses the hope that future scientific discoveries will clear the way for church acceptance of some form of birth control. However, as Bishop Emilio Guano of Leghorn pointedly reminded the council after an audience with Pope Paul VI, the birth-control issue will ultimately be decided by the Pontiff himself after a special papal commission has completed a thorough study of new contraceptives...
...Shall we make peace again? Today? Here? Shall we again become friends?" The moving plea was extemporaneously put by Pope Paul VI in a special Sistine Chapel service to several hundred painters, writers, musicians, sculptors and actors, and it marked the first time a Pontiff has tried bridging the century-old chasm between art and the church. Abstract art still disturbed the Pope. "The result is a language of Babel, of confusion," finger-wagged Paul. But the culture-loving Pontiff wanted a change: "We need you. For, as you know, our ministry is that of rendering accessible, comprehensible and also...