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Pope John XXIII, for all of his dislike for Communism, is willing to be polite about it. Gone is the defiance that Pius XII used to hurl at the Kremlin; instead Rome makes such amicable gestures as inviting Russian Orthodox observers to the Vatican Council. Last week the Pope produced in Rome a living gain from his policy of easing tensions: Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi of Lvov, freed after 18 years of Soviet confinement...
Management by Computer. Though the Fiat automobile company and other lay investors now hold substantial interests in Immobiliare, the Vatican is the company's largest single stockholder, and three members of Rome's "Black" nobility, including a nephew of Pope Pius XII, sit on Immobiliare's board. The man who runs things at Immobiliare is Aldo Samaritani, 58, the company's shrewd, publicity-shunning general manager...
...World War II only because the Holy See did not want to spare a top man for that messy post. But the French were charmed by Roncalli's humility and abilities as a raconteur?as well as by his reputation as "a heavy fork"?and in 1953 Pius XII gave him a red hat and the metropolitan see of Venice...
...warm the chair of Peter, he took over the Catholic Church in 1958 at an age (nearly 77) when he was able to leap over the administrative details and parochial interests of the papacy and confront the world as "the universal shepherd." Unlike his predecessor, the scholarly and aloof Pius XII, John lets his interests range far beyond the Catholic fold to embrace the fundamental plight of man in the modern world...
...will show the true, or nuclear, sex. Only such a test will indicate whether a child with a sex-chromosome abnormality should be raised as a boy or a girl, and what surgery is indicated. With abnormal chromosomes, mental retardation is often present. Dr. Barr also got $8,333 PIus a $25,000 grant for research...