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...pacifism, call it incipient neutralism, call it complacency born of three decades of peace and prosperity, but across Europe today an antimilitaristic mood is spreading through the body of public opinion, this time under the shadow of a growing Soviet arsenal. From Amsterdam to Bonn to London to Rome, marchers with BAN THE BOMB banners and antinuclear badges are loudly protesting attempts to reinforce Europe's nuclear deterrent forces. What is perhaps most remarkable about the phenomenon is that it is no longer seen only in traditional radical and leftist circles. TIME Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers reports that...
...other was Leonardo da Vinci. The bastard son of a Florentine notary, Leonardo was born in 1452 and died in 1519. Almost from the moment that he emerged from Verrocchio's workshop in the 1470s and began his long, peripatetic and disappointed life among the courts of Rome, Milan, France and his home town, Florence, his graphic power was a source of utter astonishment to his contemporaries. When commentators applied the adjective divino to him (as they regularly did, in a conventional way, from the beginning of the 16th century onward), they implied that his talent was godlike...
...husband hardly speaks to me. He even shuts himself up when we have visitors. And when he comes to bed he is too exhausted from playing with his cube to even give me a cuddle." If it had been invented in his day, Nero would undoubtedly have twiddled while Rome burned...
...Yuki Otoko (Snowman) and flew to equally chilly Anchor age, where he celebrated an outdoor Mass and took a 90-ft. fling at driving a sled drawn by nine rambunctious huskies. "This was great," said the Pontiff. Then off again, up over the North Pole and back to Rome. To the faithful who braved the Nagasaki blizzard, John Paul had said good-naturedly, "It's good for the faith." So, apparently, was the taxing 20,500-mile journey by the most traveled Pope in history...
With the Soviet Communist Party's 26th Congress set to open in Moscow this week, the public spat over Poland raised tensions between the Moscow and Rome Communists. Berlinguer made it clear that he would not bend before blunt Moscow messages. "We will stick to our road, whatever the initiatives or in comprehensions of other Communist parties might be," he told a crowd of Communist employees in Turin last week. Clearly that road would not lead to Mos cow. P.C.I, officials confirmed that Berlinguer, for the first time, would be absent from the Italian delegation at world Communism...