Word: talking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only talk that really counted last week, however, was proceeding among the Cardinals who will elect Roman Catholicism's 263rd Pope in hermetic secrecy during the conclave that begins this Friday evening. Paul stripped the right to vote from Cardinals age 80 and over, a ruling affecting 15 of the 129 red hats. With the death in Rome last week of Paul Yu Pin, 77, the exiled Chinese Cardinal, 114 men are eligible. But America's John Wright, India's Valerian Gracias and Poland's Boleslaw Filipiak are too ill to participate. (Like Yu Pin, they...
...Brautbar's female lab technicians burst into tears when he announced that two babies were indeed in the wrong homes. The scientific Solomon patiently explained the tests to the mothers with color charts, but they remained distraught. Said one: "I know you are logically right, but if I talk to you from the bottom of my heart, it's difficult for me to accept what you say." Added the mother of the twins: "It sounds so easy going through a change, but only a mother knows the meaning of such a thing...
Rambunctious students in a computer-age kindergarten? Well, sort of. The students, named Sherman and Austin, are chimpanzees, enrolled in an extraordinary class at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta. Despite their occasional unruly conduct, they are being successfully taught to "talk" to each other in a language other than their own usual mix of sounds and gestures. That may be a scientific first, say their instructors, who are led by a husband-wife team of psychologists, Yerkes' Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Georgia State University's Duane Rumbaugh...
...case, Third World commentaries on Paul's death were generally far warmer than those that appeared in the West, where the late Pope is widely seen as a leader who started out boldly but lost his nerve. During a British radio talk show, Broadcaster Ian Gilchrist offhandedly described Paul as a "silly old fool who caused misery to millions of gullible people." He was promptly suspended. To influential Austrian Catholic Publisher Otto Schulmeister, Paul's reign "seemed a pontificate of disintegration." Even commentators friendly to Paul argued that his administration stagnated in the 1970s, and his implementation of Vatican...
Smaller powers are more likely to provide viable dark-horse candidates. Despite his age, 73, and his Shermanesque talk of refusing election, Austria's Franz Cardinal König remains a possibility. Spain's Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon, 71, Archbishop of Madrid, has won a reputation as a courageous, liberalizing leader who declined to officiate at Franco's funeral but pointedly helped to crown King Juan Carlos. In a stalemate, the "Iberian bloc"-Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American votes-could swing behind him. A favorite of many in Latin America and elsewhere is Brazil...