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> Topic A around the Vatician these days is whether Pope Paul VI will resign when he reached 75 on Sept. 26. In 1966 Paul urged that bishops retire at 75. Shortly thereafter, he titillated papal observers with an odd pilgrimage to the castle associated with Pope Celestine V, who quit...
THE angry fates attending Northern Ireland conspired again last week to plunge that unhappy province back over the brink of violence. For nearly a month since Britain's takeover of direct rule, Ulster's Catholics had wavered between supporting the outlawed Irish Republican Army and coming to terms...
In revenge for McCann's death, I.R.A. snipers killed three British soldiers, and set off a new upsurge of violence. In all, there were more than 250 shooting incidents last week. Most of them were apparently begun by the Official wing of the I.R.A., which prefers bullets to bombs...
The other living winners included: in biography (a category formerly combined with history), Joseph Lash's splendidly affectionate Eleanor and Franklin (Norton); in arts and letters, Pianist Charles Rosen's demanding study of The Classical Style in the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven (Viking); in science, George...
As with many Americans, Powell's ancestry was beyond reliable reconstruction. For a short time, while attending Colgate, Powell passed for white and was heard to say of his fair complexion: "It's some kind of joke-white folks think I'm black and black folks think...