Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless last week, on its 50th anniversary, Pope Paul VI became the first Roman Catholic pontiff to visit the shrine of Fátima. The "spiritual motive" of his fourth papal journey outside Italy,* Paul announced, was to seek Mary's "intercession in favor of the peace of the church and of the world." The Vatican denied suggestions that the Pope was also making amends to Portugal for his visit to India following its conquest of Portuguese Goa, insisting that the trip would be "completely private" and "rapidissimo." Despite the disclaimer, the Portuguese were ecstatic...
...tima vision-Lucia dos Santos, now a 60-year-old Carmelite nun-and conferred briefly with Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Eleven hours after his arrival, Paul was winging back to Rome. Whatever its temporal effects on peace, many Catholics regarded the Pope's visit as a religious incongruity. To encourage ecumenism with Protestants, the Second Vatican Council did not emphasize Mary, and the exaggeration of Marian devotion in Catholicism has since declined. In the light of Paul's conservatism on doctrinal issues, though, some knowledgeable observers suggested that a key reason for his pilgrimage...
Stubby Arms. Finally, during a 1963 visit to Germany, Turner mentioned his idea to Physicist Hans Meinke, a micro wave expert whose research is partially financed by the U.S. Air Force. Meinke immediately grasped Turner's concept, volunteered to work on it, and was awarded an Air Force contract. Now, after four years of mathematical analysis and laboratory work, he has finally built several prototype models of the mini-antennas that Turner visualized. The simplest of Meinke's devices, which the Air Force calls Subminiature Integrated Antennas (SIA), consists of three stubby, pencil-sized arms, each at tached...
...Press has an advisory committee whose chairman is always selected from the Harvard Board of Overseers. Officially called the Overseers' Committee to Visit Harvard University Press, it is now headed by Judge Henry J. Friendly '23 of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Twenty years ago, the Committee was primarily the Press's fund-raiser and protector, but since the Press has grown stronger, the Committee has begun to act as a serious advisor...