Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EDWARD MASSEY JR. Lausanne, Switzerland...
...themes is that laymen should have a voice in selecting parish priests-as they already do in Switzerland-and bishops. He is confident that laymen's councils, which have been formed in many parishes since Vatican II, will become ever more widespread, and independent. More than that, he argues that methods should be set up, perhaps through an elected synod of laymen, for the laity to have some say in picking the Pope. He believes that the church's structure ought to be revised in order to "transform our system of absolutistic authority into one based on mutual...
...enthusiasm for Machiavelli. As a former television writer and editor for the British Broadcasting Corp. who has become an independent television consultant in London, he is fascinated by management. "The history of General Motors over the past 50 years," he says, "is far more important than the history of Switzerland or Holland." Mixing Machiavelli and management, Jay discovers some interesting and instructive corollaries between states and corporations...
Venezuela's former President Rómulo Betancourt, 59, flew home from Europe for the first time in four years to try to patch up his splintered Acción Democrática party. The visit was a brief one, though, for there was another party back in Switzerland awaiting Betancourt's ministrations. That would be Renee Hartman Viso, 44, soon to become his wife. Betancourt disclosed that he had divorced his first wife, Costa Rican-born Carmen Valverde, to be free to marry Renee. But his absence during the long divorce proceedings, some Venezuelans believe, may cost...
...resident of Connecticut since 1941, Richter winters in Switzerland, where he is currently hospitalized with pneumonia. But he still insists that he is unhappy only when he cannot work. His current style: rhythmic, wavelike white-on-white bas-reliefs, ambiguously titled Pro and Contra...