Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of the European Coal and Steel Community, as a way to defuse ancient Franco-German rivalries. Two years later, the Community was in operation, with Monnet as its president. That successful effort paved the way for the creation of the Common Market, established by the Treaty of Rome...
Newbury Street is Boston's answer to New York's Fifth Avenue, Rome's Via Veneto, and Paris' Champs Elysees. Running through the Back Bay section of the city, Newbury Street is posh, elegant, sleek, and luxurious. It's here that you'll find furs from Kakas, diamonds from Shreves, and shoes from Gucci...
...Pope John Paul II it was a curiously connubial week. First, in the Vatican's stately Pauline Chapel, the Pope kept a promise to a Rome street-cleaner's daughter who had boldly asked him to officiate at her wedding. The glowing bride, Vittoria lanni, 22, received a papal buss and so did the nervous groom, Mario Maltese, 24. "May you have long life and may you see the sons of your sons," prayed the Pope in nuptial blessing. Later in the week, the Pope tuned in the state-owned second radio network to catch the premiere broadcast...
...Will you perform my wedding ceremony?" inquired pert Vittoria lanni, 22, daughter of a Rome street sweeper. The quick reply: Yes. But it was no humble priest the bold Vittoria had asked; at a papal audience for a delegation of sweepers that included her father, she put the question to Pope John Paul II himself. Vatican bureaucrats, already shaken by the new Pontiffs penchants for kissing babies, gladhanding crowds and holding impromptu press conferences, agreed this was another first; modern Popes traditionally perform the wedding ceremony only for their relatives or Vatican notables, certainly not for one couple, in this...
LUTHER NOTED it is the people of God, and not the tyrants in Rome, who truly comprise the Church. Harvard University--all the students and Faculty--should themselves move to rename the library rather than waiting for the high priests in Mass Hall to ordain the policy...