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...rally after rally this month as he appealed for a new mandate from the country's voters. He sounded rather strident−and for good reason. The 5,000,000 citizens who trooped to the polls last week−a day after the death of King Gustaf VI Adolf at the age of 90−were voting not just on a new Parliament but on the future direction of Europe's model welfare state. As the votes were counted at week's end, it became clear that a majority of the voters were willing to travel again...
...other papal duties, Pope Paul VI has always retained a fascination with world diplomacy. He spent 32 years in the Vatican's Secretariat of State, becoming in effect Foreign Minister under Pope Pius XII. One of his most cherished dreams since he stepped into the shoes of the fisherman nearly ten years ago has been to see the atrophied diplomatic muscle of the Holy See reinvigorated. He himself took the initiative with a series of historic journeys to Asia, Africa, and North and South America, becoming the most widely traveled Pope in history...
...James Lomax, a Galveston, Texas, physician and murder researcher, adds that the olence" "mingling occurs of sex with frequently vi in the mind of the murderer. In one recent study, Lomax found that 25% of the young male murderers he investi gated had engaged in sexual acts, often aberrant, immediately after the murder...
...Gaulle needed a gift to take on his visit to Pope Paul VI. Culture Minister André Malraux suggested three abstract paintings. One was titled The Holy Face. On looking it over, De Gaulle inquired: "Where is the Holy Face?" An embarrassed adviser replied: "Eh bien, mon général, if you stand here, in a certain light . . ." De Gaulle interrupted: "No, you won't make me offer that to the Pope!" The Pope got a tapestry instead...
...unrefusable" appearance, he conducted the Harvard Glee Club and the Newark Boys Chorus in a program ranging from Bach's Magnificat to Bernstein's own Chichester Psalms, sung in Hebrew. The occasion was an annual concert that this year coincides with the tenth anniversary of Pope Paul VI's accession to the papacy...