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...cuts no ice with Portugal, which has never forgiven India for seizing its old colony of Goa in 1961. In honor of the Bom bay congress, Goa is exposing for 44 days of veneration its most famous relic, the mummified body of the 16th century Jesuit Missionary St. Francis Xavier-minus one toe that was bitten off by an overzealous worshiper in 1859 and part of one arm, which was shipped to Rome for veneration in 1615. So outraged was the government of Portugal by news of the papal visit that it forbade the country's newspapers and magazines...
...John A. Volpe, 55, a former Republican Governor, campaigned with vigah in Massachusetts, claimed greater administrative experience than his rival, Lieutenant Governor Francis Xavier Bellotti, who had upset Incumbent Democrat Endicott ("Chub") Peabody in the primary. Both Italians, the candidates tried to ensnare one another in a spaghetti bowl of corruption charges and sales-tax arguments (Volpe for, Bellotti against). Volpe spun his pasta fastah, won in a close...
...Maria Gnanam B.A. St. Xavier's Training College Palayamkottai, Madras India...
...fact, this letter comes to you as a surprise because we are unknown to each other. I passed my B.A. degree in St. Xavier's College of Madras University and now I am studying in the Training College...
Still, Peabody was easily renominated at the state Democratic convention in July, beating out his own rebellious lieutenant governor, Francis Xavier Bellotti. But Bellotti, 41, a scrappy Quincy lawyer with twelve children, ignored his convention defeat, entered the Democratic primary against Chub, scrambled energetically over the state tightening ties with local Democratic organizations -something Peabody had ignored. On the stump, Bellotti boasted of his impoverished boyhood, proudly told Democrats: "My college education, my house, my car, everything that I am and have, came as a result of Democratic-sponsored social legislation...