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ROBERT ARDREY Rome...
Beset as they are by snarled traffic and chaotic driving conditions, the citizens of Rome could scarcely believe the words uttered at Leonardo da Vinci Airport by the visiting dignitary. "The U.S. hopes to be able to benefit," said U.S. Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe, "from Italy's well-known achievements in the field of transportation, and to cooperate in attacking the problems of rapid urban transportation." In Italy to call on the Pope and to visit his parents' birthplace at Pescara, Volpe had an embarrassing admission to make when he turned up half an hour late...
Defregger was also under renewed pressure from Rome. The Jesuit newspaper Civiltà Cattolica asked whether voluntary resignation might not be "more suitable both for the church and Defregger himself." The question was significant, since the Vatican often uses the paper to express its views. Munich's Julius Cardinal Döpfner announced that his auxiliary for the" time being would handle administrative responsibilities but not sacerdotal duties. Defregger himself entered a Munich hospital "for a thorough checkup and general rest...
...Rome with Love (CBS) is the same sort of savorless trifle, with John Forsythe back to the laugh-packed responsibilities of bachelor fatherhood. In this, his third series, he plays a widowed history professor from Iowa who relocates with his three daughters in sunny, funny Italy. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (ABC) exploits both the classic 1936 film comedy of the same name and the stupefying breakthrough in transcultural humor of The Beverly Hillbillies. Deeds is a bumpkin newspaper editor who unexpectedly inherits the financial empire of a robber-baron uncle and moves to Manhattan to redress family wrongs...
...class parish. He caught Cardinal Mundelein's eye, however, and began to receive promising assignments. He served as chaplain at the Cook County jail, as an assistant at Holy Name Cathedral and was named chancellor of the archdiocese in 1923. A year later, on his first visit to Rome, he was received by Pius XI, and in 1928 he was consecrated bishop...