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Moviegoers first heard that terse exchange in a London theater on Oct. 6, 1962. The same week Johnny Carson became host of the Tonight show, and Pope John XXIII adorned the cover of TIME. Two weeks later, Khrushchev and Kennedy would go eyeball to eyeball in a dispute over Cuban missiles. So who cared about the world premiere of the first James Bond film, or the introduction of * Sean Connery as Her Majesty's hunkiest secret servant? Who knew...
...founder's battle cry did not always ring well in the 1960s and '70s. Popes John XXIII and Paul VI were building bridges toward Marxists and atheists, a policy that still attracts some of Italy's bishops. Many of them -- including Milan's influential Jesuit Archbishop Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini -- are dismayed by C.L.'s independent spirit and its insistence that a true Christian can have only one political and social outlook, a fault they label "integralism." Retorts C.L. Member Ronza: "We don't want to impose our Christian ideals on anyone, but we want an equal hearing...
Kelly offers measured praise to all the last four Popes: John XXIII ("warm-hearted and unaffectedly simple"), Paul VI ("He was able to steer the church through a period of revolutionary change"), John Paul I ("a man of practical common sense") and John Paul II ("Few Popes have had such wide- ranging intellectual equipment as John Paul, and none has had such a far- reaching impact"). Such judgments are quite unexceptionable, but a secular- minded reader will find more of interest in some of the bad old days...
...record was held by Greg Louganis of UCLA--who went on to win gold medals in both platform and springboard diving events at last summer's XXIII Olympiad...
...Chief Wilton Wynn. He should know: for all but five of the past 22 years he has been on that beat (from 1974 to 1979, Wynn was based in Cairo). He has contributed to eleven cover stories on the Roman Catholic Church and on four Popes, beginning with John XXIII. "But covering Pope John Paul II has been especially gratifying," says Wynn. "He has a real knack for getting into the news. Altogether, TIME has done eight cover stories on him since he was chosen in 1978; we did only three on Pope Paul VI during his entire 15-year...