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...pleaded with them to discontinue their antics, since the driver, a speed maniac who for reasons best known to himself wore a gas mask, kept zooming at 40 m.p.h. through alleys full of shouting humanity. I felt like one of those G.I.s who rode through liberated Paris or Rome during World War II. Kwangju, after all, had been 'liberated' by its youth power...
...Pope was celebrating his 60th birthday. So was Rome's Church of Christ the King, whose cornerstone had been blessed the same day that Karol Wojtyla was born in Wadowice, Poland, in 1920. How appropriate then for John Paul II to visit the church to celebrate Mass and enjoy a joint birthday cake. What a cake: 132 Ibs. of sponge soaked in Grand Marnier, cream filling, icing in papal yellow and white, marzipan coats of arms, and all topped by a milk chocolate model of Christ the King. Blowing out the single candle, John Paul ordered the cake distributed...
...celebrated body of water that was the cradle of Western civilization endangered those who make their home or living along its shores. Outbreaks of dysentery, viral hepatitis and typhoid have become common in some areas. Scientists in the know joke that to order oysters in a restaurant in Rome or Naples is to play "Italian roulette." And it is all happening in the world's most popular vacation playground: the Mediterranean, host to 100 million tourists a year...
...admirable catalogue reflect them at every point. It is a final vindication of a program started by Alfred Barr Jr., MOMA's first director, 50 years ago: the assumption that modernism, whose supreme exponent was Picasso, was as worthy of detailed and serious consideration as the culture of baroque Rome or quattrocento Florence...
...Humes was running a drug "detoxification center" in Rome. He at first tried to aid heroin addicts with just massage--but with few results. Then he used massage and cannabis--and the results "were spectacular...