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...chapel, the delegates sang the Gregorian chant Veni Creator Spiritus (some priestly voices were off key; the Jesuits have never been famed for their singing), then briskly moved to a large, barnlike room and took their seats on plain wooden benches facing writing desks. From a raised table they were greeted-in Latin, the order's normal business language -by alabaster-pale, 67-year-old Jean-Baptiste Janssens, 27th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, also known (like his predecessors) as "the Black Pope...
...Read Dryden Sir: Your closing sentence in the Fraden murder story, "Harlow was reading Dryden" [TIME, Dec. 28], may or may not come to have classic rank with "Veni, Vidi, Vici" or "Damn the torpedoes," but it will have at least as much effect as your suggestion (after last year's election) that the "eggheads" voted readers' for respect for Stevenson, in intellectual undermining effort your and our cultural heritage...
Then he wired to the Top: "Veni, vidi, veto. Stop...
...Serenade, Vic has already pulled more than 1,000 letters from such groups as "Vic's Victims," "Veni, Vidi, Vic," and "The Golden Agers"-a Damone fan club composed entirely of grandmothers. Vic seems to have a fatal charm for elderly women; once, after he had sung, an old lady rushed onstage and bussed him roundly...
Vanquished. In Melbourne, John Kenneth Ware was divorced for misconduct by his wife, Veni Vidi Vici Ware...