Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngest, most brilliant and most cosmopolitan cardinals moved into a strategic Vatican post last week. The post: proprefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, the job in which Chicago's late Cardinal Stritch never had a chance to serve (TIME, June 9). The cardinal: Russian-born Gregory Peter XV Agagianian, patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, the church's top expert on Russian affairs, and often mentioned as a future Pope...
Recalled to Rome in 1921, Father Agagianian became vice rector (later rector) of the Pontifical Armenian College. He added to his store of languages-he is now fluent in eleven, including English, Russian, French, German. Italian, Latin, classical Greek and Hebrew, and understands, but does not speak Arabic...
...quiet, witty Cardinal Agagianian will give up his patriarchate and replace the brimless stovepipe headgear of a patriarch with a simple biretta. But with his special experience in Russian affairs and in the intricate network of relationships in the Communist-infiltrated Middle East, his new position at the helm of the Roman Catholic missionary movement makes him one of the most potent and important men in the Vatican. Last week the Pope conferred a further honor on Cardinal Agagianian-naming him to the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, most important of the Holy See's twelve administrative...
...businessmen have dallied, the world has not waited. Great Britain, France and The Netherlands have taken the lead in standard setting, and even Russia has participated in one-third more standardization conferences than the U.S. Young industrial nations are already finding it easier to adopt British. French or even Russian rather than U.S. standards. In the last ten years, India has adopted some 1,000 national standards; most were British, only a few American...
NAPOLEON'S RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN (306 pp.)-Philippe-Paul de Ségur-Hough-ion Mifflin...