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...replacement has never been a regular reviewer. A Bryn Mawr graduate who went on to study comparative literature at Harvard and spent a year at the Sorbonne under the tutelage of Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, Renata Adler has written wryly and perceptively on a variety of subjects in her five years with The New Yorker: literary critics, group therapy, civil rights marchers, and New Leftists. But fertile as she has been in ideas, she felt she was running out of them, and so looks forward to the rigors of daily criticism. Her taste in movies is eclective...
...months to the day after he fell ill with what was first announced as a urinary infection, Pope Paul VI, 70, underwent surgery for removal of an enlarged prostate gland. The 45-minute operation, performed by a team of six doctors headed by Italy's renowned surgeon, Professor Pietro Valdoni, 67, took place in an up-to-date operating theater installed last month in the Vatican. The first major surgery ever performed on a Pope "went excellently," said the Vatican, and the Pope should be up and about in two weeks...
...first time in Christian history, the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople last week set foot in Rome. Accompanied by four of his Metropolitans, Athenagoras I, the spiritual primate of Orthodoxy, arrived by jet for the third of his historic, symbolic encounters with Pope Paul VI. The three-day visit was, in a sense, a return engagement, inspired by the Pope's trip to Istanbul last July...
...public debate in Britain over the proper education of the heir apparent, the Prince of Wales had come to Cambridge to finish his formal schooling. Though two of his kingly forebears had attended Cambridge, Charles was the first royal heir to become a university man since his grandfather, George VI, and the first in history to attend as a normal undergraduate...
...conflict between generations, the family-a subject that has already led to a discussion of birth control-and world economic development. Like the synod, the congress has no legislative authority over its church and can only make recommendations to the Pope. But some Roman observers were betting that Paul VI might get at least as much good advice from the congress' laymen as from the synod's bishops...