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...Groups New Date Day I, VII, IX Jan. 24 Thursday XIII Jan. 25 Friday XI Jan. 26 Saturday X, XV, XVI Jan. 28 Monday IV Jan. 29 Tuesday II Jan. 30 Wednesday XII Jan. 31 Thursday III Feb. 1 Friday VII, XIV Feb. 2 Saturday V Feb. 4 Monday VI, XVII, XVIII Feb. 5 Tuesday...
...Women's Liberation, Betty Friedan, flew to Rome last week on the eve of the first meeting of the Vatican's special study commission on the role of women in society. Friedan spent four minutes in a private audience with Pope Paul VI, urging him to accord women "personhood." The Pope thanked her for the work she had done on behalf of women and accepted as a gift a brass Women's Lib symbol. Said Friedan to the Pope: "As you see, this makes a different kind of cross." Friedan avoided dogmatic issues like birth control...
Arriving in Rome, the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists did just what the Romans do. Dressed in his official violet robe, the Dalai Lama went to see the Pope. His offerings: a portrait and his own biography of Buddha. In return Paul VI gave the Dalai Lama a pontifical medal and a book about his own trip to the Far East. The two parted beaming from a summit conference described by one Vatican watcher as "an encounter of the two Gospels," Christ's Sermon on the Mount and Buddha's Sermon on the Benares...
...pomp and ceremony that his single-class country paradoxically enjoys, curly-haired Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus Bernadotte was formally installed last week as King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. At 27, the handsome bachelor is Europe's youngest monarch; he succeeds the oldest, his grandfather Gustaf VI Adolf, who had died four days earlier...
Died. Gustaf VI Adolf, 90, King of the Swedes, the Goths and the Wends since 1950 and Europe's oldest monarch; in Helsingborg, Sweden. He was the sixth ruler in the 155-year-old Bernadotte dynasty founded by a Napoleonic marshal, and his death signals the end of the Swedish monarchy in all but name. By a constitutional change enacted during Gustaf's lifetime but delayed out of respect to the King, the throne of Sweden now becomes a purely ceremonial position. The scholarly Gustaf delighted in congratulating each December's Nobel prizewinners, amassed...