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Leaving Sant Ignazio Church in downtown Rome, popular, jovial Pope John XXIII, 78, waved off his chauffeur, strolled some 300 yds. to the Capranica Seminary, where he was to speak to some young priests. It was his longest walk outside the Vatican since his elevation to the Papacy. Feeling much like a young priest himself, His Holiness observed: "Our legs can still bear us, and this is the best way to move. But on foot, in an automobile or in the air, the important thing is to go forward-wherever the Lord wants...
...Madame Pandit. Gallup pulse takers announced the results of their similar quest for the world's "most admired" man. The most-for the seventh straight year: Dwight D. Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Next nine in the procession: Sir Winston Churchill, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Harry S. Truman, Pope John XXIII, Evangelist Billy Graham, cancer-stricken Jungle Physician Thomas Dooley (TIME, Aug. 31), Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur...
...Catholic Jurists. The association of judges, lawyers and law professors had just closed its tenth annual convention with earnest discussions on the convention theme: freedom of the press. Now the delegates, having kept an open mind on the subject-no resolutions were passed-sought the counsel of Pope John XXIII. "It is on this problem, so basic in modern society," said Italian Prime Minister Antonio Segni, who led the delegates in, "that we have come together here to listen with filial devotion to the words of the Holy Father...
...words of John XXIII were not calculated to give the world's press any ease. "Can the Pope," asked he, "remain indifferent to press accounts which have nothing to do with instructions or honest information? Does his heart not suffer at the thought of the poison broadcast widely, without concern for so many innocents? Can it be legitimate to pander to morbid curiosity with details and descriptions that had better be left in the files of the police laboratories and the courts? Is it ever licit to use every criminal act, over which it would be better to draw...
...faith that became a tacit show of strength against the Reds, a crowd of 200,000, including a subdued and silent Castro, paraded by torchlight into Plaza Civica for midnight Mass, paying homage to Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity. By radio Pope John XXIII voiced hope that Catholics would "save the Christian face of Cuba...