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Wojtyla is tireless, sometimes putting in 20-hour days, and known as a voracious reader. He is fluent in Latin, Italian, English, French and German, as well as Polish. Not Russian? Said a priest in his entourage when asked that question last week: "No Pole speaks Russian???but everyone understands it." A flip-up desk allows him to write while being driven in his car. He has a disconcerting habit of reading or writing while carrying on a conversation?and then displaying total recall of what was said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...same afternoon, police started a round up of Communists. Seventy foreigners?not one of them a Russian??? were arrested and held pending deportation. Twenty police commissioners and more than 700 men were engaged in different parts of France in the search; and it was alleged that a revolutionary plot had been "nipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Week | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

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