Word: takeing
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Pope John XXIII rode through cheering crowds of Romans this week to take formal possession of the cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome-the great, grey basilica of St. John Lateran. Popes in bygone times used to make the short journey across the city on horseback, which sometimes enlivened the occasion with incident: Clement XIV (1769-74), for instance, fell from his horse on dismounting, only to assure alarmed aides that he was "confusus" but not "contusus." Sixtus V (1585-90) corrected the flattering observation of an ambassador that he had "mounted easily" with the admonition...
While one photographer was trying to take some, he answered a reporter's question with characteristic candor. "My one great problem is to continue to live this moving-around life of mine as a cardinal. People will have to get used to the fact that a cardinal goes to jails, to all kinds of places where prelates are not supposed to enter...
...working people, it was unknown that the poor would not go to church. It was the last thing that they would neglect. Now, with social security checks and welfare checks coming in, they are not interested in the church. They go from day to day knowing that tomorrow will take care of itself." Gushing clenched his big fists. "Their former dependence on God, upon the personal charity of those representing religion, has been psychologically unsettled by the welfare state...
...becoming a cardinal? "I personally don't have the temperament or the psychological background for honors of this kind. I'm happy with this honor because the people are happy. It would have been much easier without it. I'm a man who doesn't take to protocol, social ecclesiastical standing, and other high places that go with the robes of a prince of the church. But I am tremendously grateful to the Pope...
Discovery. Says Chemist Reuben G. Gustavson, former chancellor of the University of Nebraska: "Twenty-eight years of teaching [college] science gave me the most fun I have ever had. It is fun to help students discover facts and laws unknown to them. [But] it does not take long before student and teacher have walked together out to the frontier of knowledge-a fine comradeship between an older and a younger generation. Each new generation of young scientists gets its happiness by explaining what was inscrutable to the previous generation...