Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early in April, a series of plastic bomb explosions upset Paris. To many, the terrorist activities brought panic, but to some they only confirmed certain hypotheses about things in general. Shrugging off the results of an April 4 explosion near the Paris Bourse, M. Papon, Prefect of Police, declared precisely and firmly for the record: "Nothing astonishes me in this century...
University of Notre Dame Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, Roman Catholic, Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith LL.D...
...situations. Best guesses are that at least two of the three secret cardinals are actually Vatican officials. Pope John is keeping their names secret in order to hold them to their present assignments (which they would have to give up if publicly appointed). Most likely candidates: Monsignor Enrico Dante, Prefect of Pontifical Ceremonies; Monsignor Antonio Samore, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs; Monsignor Acacio Coussa, Assessor for the Holy Congregation for the Oriental Church; and Monsignor Giuseppe Ferretto, Secretary of the Sacred College. The foreign favorites: Monsignor Juan Landázuri Ricketts, Archbishop of Lima, and Monsignor...
Peter Lorre, as a small time peddler of happiness, this time in the form of contraband exit visas, is his usual wicked self and Claude Raines, playing a French prefect willing to go along with the Germans, is brilliantly non-committal. Striking down nothing more menacing than flies, Sidney Greenstreet portrays a man marvelously unconvincing self-proclaimed leader of "all organized crime" in Casablanca. In short, the gang is all here for the picture. The only disappointment is that Lorre is bumped off too soon...