Word: xiii
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...Force, and is increasingly a testing ground for NASA. The first operationally fired Thor was launched from Vandenberg, and so was the first Atlas to be rocketed across the Pacific. The Discoverer series was launched into polar orbit, and the 1960 recovery of the gold-plated capsule of Discoverer XIII off Hawaii marked the first time an American object had been retrieved from orbit in space...
...candidate for sainthood to be Italian, and a nun, priest or brother. Of the "causes" on the Vatican's current list, only 100 are laity; about half are non-Italians. Thirteen of the top candidates are cardinals; five are Popes: Gregory X, Innocent V, Innocent XI, Benedict XIII and Pius IX. Of the dozen or so Americans on the list, best known are Venerable Kateri Tekakwitha (TIME, Jan. 27, 1961), colonial New York's gentle, ascetic "Lily of the Mohawks," and Mother Elizabeth Bayley Seton (1774-1821), founder of the Sisters of Charity...
...open and flagrant contradiction between the socio-economic teachings of Robert Welch and that of Leo XIII and his successors." At a Los Angeles rally, meanwhile, the Birchers unveiled Eddie Rose, a 23-year-old college student who had just won the society's $1,000 first prize for the best essay on: "Grounds for the Impeachment of Earl Warren." Eddie flunked out of the U.C.L.A. engineering school, attended Los Angeles City College for a year, is now taking extension courses in engineering at U.C.L.A. Off campus, he works as a weight analyst at Douglas Aircraft's Santa...
Examination I Tuesday, January 30 II Wednesday, January 24 III Tuesday, January 23 IV Wednesday, January 31 V Friday, January 26 VI Thursday, January 25 VII Saturday, January 27 VIII Tuesday, January 30 IX Tuesday, January 30 X Saturday, January 20 XI Monday, January 22 XII Friday, January 19 XIII Monday, January 29 XIV Saturday, January 27 XV Saturday, January 20 XVI Saturday, January 20 XVII Thursday, January 25 XVIII Thursday, January...
...first acts as Pope was to bring Cicognani back to Rome in 1958 and make him a cardinal, overruling Article 232 of canon law, which prohibits brothers, first cousins, or an uncle and a nephew, from being cardinals simultaneously, as had previously been done by both Leo XIII and Pius XI, but to Gaetano Cardinal Cicognani the law was a constant source of worry and chagrin because it seemed to curb his talented brother. Once at a dinner a fellow prelate had jokingly said to Gaetano: "Because of you, your brother cannot become cardinal." Gaetano came close to bursting into...