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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Conservative. Ecuador hustled Flores off to Europe in 1845 with a pension, and underwent 15 years of anarchy. For the next 15, the country was ruled by the greatest Ecuadorian of the 19th century. Gabriel Garcia Moreno hated democracy. He was a conservative, a working Roman Catholic who dressed in black, went daily to Mass and revered Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ; he believed that "only through force may good be attained." But he also despised militarism, gave the country a uniform currency, the first highway between mountainous Quito and seaside Guayaquil, established an efficient treasury...
...their two children, Rocco, 3, and Marisa, 15 months. In the winter they move back to their home in Temple, Pa., where Rocky met Carmen in 1953 while playing with nearby Reading. There they keep a jewelry box full of religious medals that fans have sent to Rocky, a Roman Catholic, during his periodic slumps...
Spartan Standards. The guardsmen's lot has never been an easy one. First formed in 1505 by Pope Julius II. who gave Switzerland the honor of supplying 200 mercenaries as his personal bodyguard, the corps was almost wiped out 22 years later when Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sacked Rome. In a short, vicious fight, 147 Swiss were killed, successfully defending Clement VII. The guard has not fought another major battle, but ever since has set itself such Spartan, fiercely loyal standards that even a U.S. Marine drill instructor might blink...
Married. Sue Simone Ingersoll, 21, New Mexico's peppery redheaded entry for the Miss Universe contest who defied Albuquerque Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne's ban on Roman Catholics' entering bathing-suit contests, but finally withdrew; and Sam Francis Jr., 23, pre-law student at the University of New Mexico; in a civil ceremony, in Juarez, Mexico...
...Story. The photography is glorious but the religious picture is blurred as Audrey Hepburn plays a Roman Catholic nun whose choice between love of God and love of man comes hard...