Word: romes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAPELLA PAOLINA (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). A special on two Michelangelo frescoes -The Conversion of St. Paul and The Cru cifixion of St. Peter - in the Pauline Chap el of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome...
...most books, scholars and other experts are brought in as consultants and writers. Sir Maurice Bowra and Moses Hadas authored volumes in the Great Ages of Man series, respectively Classical Greece and Imperial Rome. Most volumes carry an introduction by an authority in his field. Among the introducers...
...heyday of the hero, history was a game with few players, and a single man could more readily change it all. The Greeks were losing the Trojan war until Achilles was coaxed from his tent. Horatius defended Rome's bridge with only two friends, and even as late as 1528, Pizarro could overthrow the mighty Inca civilization with only 167 men -less than the number commanded by Captain William Carpenter in that recent local battle in Viet Nam. Now with a cast of many thousands or millions, each leader heads only a segment, and decision is often a synthesis...
...eight major cities, the Reds' total vote dropped 1.6%. In 93 smaller communities, their share of the vote declined 7% . In Rome itself, where they hoped to win a plurality, the party lost ground for the first time since 1948. The chief beneficiary of the losses (and of similar defections from the right wing): Premier Aldo Moro's Chris tian Democrats...
...First Crusade was launched by Pope Urban II, a French aristocrat who had donned a monk's cassock. Urban's purposes were to help Byzantium resist the Turkish onslaught, heal the schism between the Churches of Rome and Constantinople, and harness the anarchic violence of the feudal soldiery in the service of a righteous cause-the reconquest of the Holy Sepulcher from the Moslem infidel...