Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). From Scotland to Mesopotamia, the Roman Empire left a legacy of art, science and law. Fredric March narrates the "Leg acy of Rome...
...long Neptune Pool, kept a constant 70° while Hearst lived. The pool was last used as a set for Spartacus, and it required no added props. As laid out by Hearst's architect, Julia Morgan, it is surrounded by two Etruscan-style colonnades, backed by a Greco-Roman temple, and fronted by a marble Birth of Venus. Equally awe-inspiring is the 83-ft.-long assembly hall with an immense 16th century Italian carved-walnut ceiling and a 16th century French stone mantelpiece for which Hearst outbid even John D. Rockefeller. Another favorite is the 27-ft.-high...
Chances of a major change in the Roman Catholic stand against contra ception are growing remote, at least so long as Paul VI is Pope. Addressing a recent congress of Italian gynecolo gists and obstetricians, the Pope said that he needed more time to study the issue and that until he makes a decision, the present ban remains in force. The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Ro mano then reinforced the point in a front-page editorial: "Assent to the un natural regulation of births would be assent to moral irresponsibility...
Father Quealy, 37, a Roman Cath olic priest for ten years, volunteered for duty as an Army chaplain and was shipped out last January to South Viet Nam. Assigned to the 1st Division, Quealy - against the advice of senior officers at field headquarters in Dau Tieng - insisted on boarding a helicopter of medics and troop reinforcements flying to the relief of the Big Red One's 1st Battalion, under attack in War Zone C northwest of Saigon (see THE WORLD). Landing at the battle site, Father Quealy hurriedly gave last rites to dying soldiers from a platoon...
CuldeSac. Roman Polanski, 33, is the Paris-born Pole who three years ago captured an international audience with a precocious thriller called Knife in the Water. Knife in hand, this switchbloc Hitchcock then went West and persuaded British producers to finance a small masterpiece of menace called Repulsion. His third film, also made in England, is a jittery-tittery comedy of terrors in which Polanski hones his slapstick to a razor-edge...