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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman Catholic Church, great age has never been a bar to holding high office. Pope John XXIII was 81 at his death. Pope Leo XIII reigned until he died at 93. Celestine III was raised to the papacy at 85. Of the 97 current cardinals, 45 are 75 or older. The Vati can's Prefect of the Congregation of Seminaries is the feeble Giuseppe Car dinal Pizzardo, 89. And under canon law, bishops, no matter how aged and ailing, remain rulers of their dioceses -although the church has traditionally provided coadjutors to assist them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholicism: Retirement for 200 Bishops | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

Greece's Constantine XIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Income: Crowned with Money | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

Never Too Exuberant. Finally, in 1627 a commission from a cardinal made Poussin's name. King Louis XIII pressured him into returning to paint for the glory of France. Under the orders of Cardinal Richelieu, Poussin was pestered with jobs to do what he called "mere bagatelles"-fireplaces, frontispiece designs, cabinet decor. After two years of royal daubing in France, he fled for good to Rome, where he quietly painted what he pleased until his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Luminous Logician | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...Italy, he expressed his nobility in "the noble passion of lust." He also had an audience with Pope Clement XIII ("He looked jolly landlord and smiled") and charmed Lord Mountstuart, the 20-year-old son of Lord Bute, the favorite of King George HI. It was Boswell's big chance for a career at court, and he muffed it. He took Mountstuart to a whorehouse, brought him home severely plagued by Venus, was dismissed in disgrace from milord's retinue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Genius | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...premier Pretender, Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 52, third son* of Spain's last King, Alfonso XIII, decided to try to clarify the picture. Last week he named the first five members of an eight-man "secretariat" that will function as a sort of cabinet, supplement the 60-man privy council that already advises him, and seek to unify the monarchists. The head of the new secretariat is José Maria de Areilza, the Count of Motrico, who has acted as Franco's ambassador to Argentina, France and the U.S. To improve "domestic relations"-meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Pretender's Cabinet | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

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