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...September, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier were married by Boston's Cardinal (then Archbishop) Gushing in a Newport extravaganza that moved society columnists to transports of joy. There were 26 groomsmen and bridesmaids, 700 guests (ranging from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt to Marion Davies) at the nuptial Mass and 900 at the reception...
Arthritis & Wounds. Writing for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the surgeon-anthropologist describes how he got Joseph Farland, U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, to talk the Dominicans into opening the tomb in 1959. "With exacting protocol, three keys, a special committee including the Archbishop, scholars, Dominican scientists, state officials and, of course, a crowd of curious tourists, the bronze gates and sepulcher doors were unlocked. The crystal-covered ancient lead coffin with its bony contents was placed before me. In the high, arched cathedral nave, through open doors. I had my chance to settle once...
Died. Joseph Cardinal Wendel, 59, Archbishop of Munich, widely known as the "Bishop of Peace" for his post-World War II travels to rebuild good will for West Germany; of a heart attack after delivering a New Year's Eve sermon; in Munich...
...exact opposite might prove to be true. The Anglican and the Dutch Reformed Churches find themselves drawn together in mutual concern, as they have not been since Anglican Archbishop Joost de Blank of Capetown threatened to resign from the World Council of Churches if the Dutch Reformed Churches did not mend their racial ways. At the close of the World Council consultation, Archbishop de Blank rose and begged forgiveness from the Dutch Reformed Church men for any hurt he might previously have caused in his impassioned campaigning. Promptly and warmly they forgave him. Says Alan Paton: "The archbishop...
...Archbishop Luis Concha Córdoba, 69, of Bogotá, Colombia, was born to a powerful and cultured family (his father was President of Colombia from 1914 to 1918). A shy, modest man, Archbishop Concha Córdoba is recognized to be an able administrator with a forward-looking viewpoint that makes him trusted by the Liberals-Colombia's majority political party, which favors separation of church and state...