Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pope Pius XII's step was springy and he mounted his throne with more than usual vigor. To thin, 87-year-old Msgr. Alfonso Carinci, Deacon of Protonotaries, he handed a brilliantly illuminated parchment manuscript-the papal bull* which proclaimed 1950 a Holy Year of pilgrimage to Rome. Then, with his face almost constantly lighted by smiles, he spoke to the mauve-robed Apostolic Protonotaries assembled before him, in the most optimistic terms he had used since before...
...Thus in Rome last week, the Holy Year of 1950 was officially proclaimed. The tradition is 650 years old. Originally planned to take place every 100 years, the intervals were shortened first to 50, finally to 25 years-though popes may declare a special Holy Year at any time, as Pius XI did in 1933 to commemorate the 1900th anniversary of the Crucifixion...
...Appia, middle-class families spread picnic lunches of bread, salami and strong red wine. From Venice to Capri hotels and restaurants looked forward to a season of 2,000,000 tourists, bringing American dollars and British pounds. The springtime wave of foreigners already crowded the sidewalk cafes of Rome's gay Via Veneto...
...they still tend to approach economic problems as scholarly theorists rather than as practical politicians. They know that Italy's hope lies in improved farming methods and more industrialization, but they are not able to move fast enough toward their goals. Said one high-ranking American in Rome: "Unless we do more than we have in the past year, unless we move faster, we might as well walk out of here in 1953 [when EGA ends] and let the Communists take over...
...superior to comparable airplanes powered with piston engines. It burns more fuel, but it carries a ton of extra payload because of the lightness of its engines. It cruises at 325 m.p.h. with 40 passengers, and is designed for short or medium runs, such as London-Paris and London-Rome...