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...Greeks were even hinting at dropping out of NATO. Yet Athens popped up with a surprise concession. Bearded Archbishop Makarios, temporal and spiritual leader of the Greek Cypriots, dropped his old demand for enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece). He would be willing, he said, to settle for independence for the island after a period of internal self-government...
Edward Cardinal Mooney, 76, Archbishop of Detroit, died in Rome last week, and the U.S. lost one of the outstanding churchmen of his time...
Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, 66, Archbishop of Bologna, a sailor's son, is a lusty, genial fighter who organized the "flying priest" squads against the Communists. Deeply concerned with social reform, he has a left-wing reputation...
Giovanni Battista Montini, 61, Archbishop of Milan, is one of the ablest men in the church, served under Pius XII as pro-Secretary of State for ten years. Shifted from the Vatican to the Milan diocese in 1954, he still wears no red hat; not for almost 600 years has a noncardinal been chosen...
Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, 70, Archbishop of Palermo, is noted for keen interest in science, inexperience in politics, and personal courage. Once when the famed Sicilian bandit Giuliano was terrorizing the countryside near Palermo, Ruffini walked out alone into the hills and cried: "Giuliano, I am your archbishop and I forbid you to kill...