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...Jesuits' Roman headquarters, a severe, palazzo-ike building on Borgo Santo Spirito, a stone's throw from St. Peter's, Arrupe still emulates Japanese ways. In the tiny private chapel off his room, he prays, sitting Zen-style on a cushion, each morning and evening that he is there. Often he is not. Though previous Jesuit generals stayed close to Rome, Arrupe has logged 200,000 miles on more than 30 trips. Says an aide: "His face lights up when he's on the road...
...couronne de riz clamart (hunter-style chicken with rice), framboises à la crème Chantilly and petits jours secs. After dinner, the guests strolled across the lawn to rows of camp chairs, settled back for a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra (selections: Mozart's Allegro con Spirito from Symphony No. 35 in D Major, Gershwin's American in Paris...
...Jesuit headquarters in Borgo Santo Spirito near St. Peter's Square, the modern men in wool met in Extraordinary General Congregation, the sixth since Loyola's death, to settle pressing business facing the Society of Jesus, largest and most powerful order in the Roman Catholic Church...
...Arcadia, Calif., Jockey Willie Shoemaker, 22, set a record that may last as long as Babe Ruth's 60 home runs. On the last day of the season, Willie booted home his 485th winner (in 255 days of riding), beating the 1952 record of Tony De Spirito by 95 winning rides...
...election followed a centuries-old formula. For four days electors were confined to the Society's headquarters at the Borgo Santo Spirito. When election day came, they attended a 5:30 Mass of the Holy Ghost, then, wearing their plain black robes, filed into the Hall of Elections. After an exhortation on the qualities most needed in the new General, electors knelt for the prescribed hour of prayer and meditation. The hour past, each elector read the oath: "I swear that my vote has been guided only by the interest of the Church and the Society of Jesus," dropped...