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TELEPHONE wires across Rome hummed last week with the singing of the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus, the first notes of which Pope John will intone next week to open the Second Vatican Council. The sing-along was started by TIME Correspondent Robert B. Piser, who, attempting to determine the century in which that version of the hymn was composed, sang it to several sources on the phone-and they went on from there singing it to others. Piser finally got the correct echo: 9th century...
...Veni Creator Spiritus. The council will open with a splendor to match its high goal. From his throne in the Hall of Benedictions of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, Pope John XXIII will intone the first notes of the 9th century hymn Veni Creator Spiritus (Come, Holy Ghost). Then the cardinals, patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, abbots and superiors of religious orders, representing more than 90% of the church's hierarchic leaders-some auxiliary bishops and many Iron Curtain prelates will not attend-will begin their solemn procession across Bernini's piazza toward the great Basilica...
...extreme are a minority of diehard Stalinists, longing for the early postwar years when Communist partisans expectantly scrawled signs, "Ha da veni' Baffone"-Big Mustache (Stalin) is coming. They blame Khrushchev's coexistence politics for shattering the unity of the Soviet bloc. Togliatti's support of Khrushchev, says Senior Stalinist Mauro Scoccimarro, 66, has "created confusion within the party." Scorning Togliatti's parliamentary tactics, the Stalinists still prefer the revolutionary road to victory. Like Scoccimarro. most of the old guard are veterans of Mussolini's jails, but some are young toughs who shouted...
...American mission was emphasized by the presence of two colonels, one light colonel, a major, a captain, two lieutenants, several Jeep-mounted machine guns, a Jeep-mounted 106-mm. recoilless rifle. Could this be the real thing? Not exactly. In the middle of the armed mob was old Veni Vidi Video himself-Jack Paar...
...igitur, veni intro...