Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Albert Pike was always one to stick his neck out. So uncompromising was his Catholicism that he turned down a scholarship to Harvard to go to a Catholic college-California's Jesuit University of Santa Clara. But after two years there, his faith in the Church of Rome was gone, and with it his faith in Christianity ("I threw out the baby with the bath water," he says). He switched to the University of Southern California, followed it up with Yale Law School...
Last year-in a nightspot near Rome's glossy Via Veneto, Filippo met a pretty, lissome British starlet named Belinda Lee. Soon Belinda was announcing her intention to divorce her photographer husband, and confiding to friends and the press: "Only Italian men know how to treat women, how to make a woman feel she is really a woman." Last week Belinda flew into Rome from South Africa, where she had been making a film. Filippo met her at the airport, took her to a friend's apartment, worriedly tried to explain that he could not leave his wife...
Over breakfast next day, Belinda fell to the floor, was rushed to a Rome hospital and stomach-pumped of an excess of barbiturates. Filippo rushed after her and created such a scene that attendants had to remove him bodily. When his wife and her lawyer appeared next morning at the flat he had shared with Belinda, Prince Orsini tamely let himself be led home, but then-in a burst of anger-slashed his wrists with a razor blade...
...been going on here is that houses have been selling the bodies of women, and the government has been taking a percentage of the sale." One young Roman was more cynical. "Now that the houses are going to close, we are going to initiate a great public work in Rome-widening the sidewalks...
...rose to highest honors in his country and his church only to fall in the end. Though Biographer Ferguson (a Reader's Digest editor) takes a cool view of theological matters, the book always conveys the rising sense of crisis in which Canterbury split from Rome. It was Wolsey's difficult role to represent both the universal church and an island king. As Ferguson puts it: "Rome could pay his wages, and England could enjoy his talents...