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...girls . . ." than the entire U.S. women's swimming team retired to study for their driver's licenses. But in short order, pools were filled with a new generation of water sprites, and America's junior high school swimming juggernaut splashed relentlessly on: five of seven gold medals in the Rome Games of 1960; six of eight at Tokyo in 1964; eleven of 14 in the 1968 Mexico City Olympiad; eight of 14 at Munich...
Just days before the Cardinals began to choose the new Pope, an NBC newsman in Rome telephoned Venice's Albino Cardinal Luciani to ask for some biographical background. With self-effacing humor, Luciani observed: "There is a Class A list of candidates, a Class B list of candidates, and a Class C list of candidates. I am surely on the Class C list." His fellow Cardinals, obviously disagreeing, last week moved Albino Luciani to the head of the class...
...Roman Catholic Church have advocated sweeping changes in the election of the Pope. In the heady atmosphere of the 1960s, when the Second Vatican Council was bringing change to so many other areas, enthusiasts envisioned elected delegations of bishops, priests, even lay men and women trooping to Rome to choose the next Pontiff. Others, more realistic, argued that the body of papal electors should be expanded to include the sort of worldwide sampling of bishops who attended the synods convened by Pope Paul...
...time each Cardinal-elector walks into St. Peter's Basilica for the pre-conclave Mass of the Holy Spirit this Friday, he will have taken two elaborate oaths of secrecy, one when he first joined the assembly of waiting Cardinals in Rome, another shortly before the conclave. Then, as the conclave begins, he will take a third oath along with his fellow Cardinals, pledging yet again to observe secrecy in any matter "pertaining to the election of the Roman Pontiff," under pain of excommunication...
DIED. Paul Yu Pin, 77, China's only Roman Catholic Cardinal; of a heart attack; in Rome, where he had gone to participate in the Vatican conclave that will elect a successor to Pope Paul VI. After the Chinese Catholic Church was shattered in 1949 by the Communists, the towering Yu Pin (6 ft. 3 in.) was ordered by Pope Pius XII to abandon his diocese of Nanking for the U.S., and was condemned to death in absentia by the Communists...