Word: rome
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...Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, who followed Berlinguer to the green hill towns of Calabria, is the son of a distinguished linguistics professor who migrated to the U.S. in the '30s and settled in New Jersey, where he taught for many years at Princeton University Consequently, his son got his education in that area (Lawrenceville, Princeton High School, Columbia University) and, after an apprenticeship in local newspapers, joined TIME-LIFE...
Although regional elections are not comparable to national ones and the Christian Democrats usually do better in national votes, the Communists hope to improve on the 33% they won last year. This is far from certain. The latest poll published by Rome's pro-Socialist daily La Repubblica showed Christian Democrats gaining by a percentage point, to put them three points beyond the Communists. Berlinguer, in a perhaps deliberately gloomy assessment last week, agreed with the trend...
During World War II the young Berlinguer became the secretary of Sassari's Young Communist League, was arrested for taking part in food riots and freed after a hundred days in jail. He soon moved to Rome to work in the party's headquarters there and became a protégé of Togliatti. By the age of 23, Berlinguer had won a seat on the party's central committee and been tabbed as a comer; after that, he gradually worked his way to the top until he succeeded Togliatti's successor, the aging...
...Borrowed Cape. So closely was the secret kept that Cardinal Trin himself only suspected the honor awaiting him in Rome. Said the cardinal: "When I left Hanoi, I was asked by government officials why I was going to Rome. I told them truthfully that I did not know, although I vaguely asked myself, 'Could I possibly be called to be a cardinal?' " Permission to leave had come so belatedly that Trin alone still wore his purple episcopal cassock, topped with a borrowed scarlet cape and sash...
...Vicar Apostolic of Hanoi since 1950, and archbishop since 1960, Trin presided over much of that accommodation. The job has its uncertainties. Said he after his investiture: "I hope that they believe me when I tell them that I did not know the reason for my call to Rome...