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Management by Computer. Though the Fiat automobile company and other lay investors now hold substantial interests in Immobiliare, the Vatican is the company's largest single stockholder, and three members of Rome's "Black" nobility, including a nephew of Pope Pius XII, sit on Immobiliare's board. The man who runs things at Immobiliare is Aldo Samaritani, 58, the company's shrewd, publicity-shunning general manager...
...Tues., Jan. 29 VII MWF at 2 Sat., Jan. 26 VIII MWF at 3 Sat., Jan. 19 IX MWF at 4 Sat., Jan. 19 X TTS at 8 Tues., Jan. 22 XI TTS at 9 Mon., Jan. 28 XII TTS at 10 Fri., Jan. 25 XIII TTS at 11 Wed., Jan. 23 XIV TTS at 12 Sat., Jan. 26 XV TTS at 1 Tues., Jan. 22 XVI TTS at 2 Tues., Jan. 22 XVII TTS at 3 Tues., Jan. 29 XVIII TTS at 4 Tues...
...World War II only because the Holy See did not want to spare a top man for that messy post. But the French were charmed by Roncalli's humility and abilities as a raconteur?as well as by his reputation as "a heavy fork"?and in 1953 Pius XII gave him a red hat and the metropolitan see of Venice...
...chair of Peter, he took over the Catholic Church in 1958 at an age (nearly 77) when he was able to leap over the administrative details and parochial interests of the papacy and confront the world as "the universal shepherd." Unlike his predecessor, the scholarly and aloof Pius XII, John lets his interests range far beyond the Catholic fold to embrace the fundamental plight of man in the modern world...
...social doctrine, the Vatican seems to have abandoned the rigid anti-Communist stand of Pius XII. Most notable sign of Rome's new drift was John XXIII's encyclical Mater et Magistra, which gave papal blessing to socialization that did not deny man's basic right to private property. Last February the Pope asked politically conservative Italian bishops to criticize Premier Amintore Fanfani's "opening to the left." Pope John is no friend of Communism, but he hopes somehow to make it possible for the 63 million Catholics behind the Iron Curtain to preserve their freedom...