Word: romes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Devoted to an art that his dictator father proscribed as decadent, Jazz Pianist Romano Mussolini, 33, has long kept his political opinions to himself. Last week, temporarily diverting his attention from the combo he fronts in a new Rome nightclub, Romano finally admitted his belief that in most respects Papa knew best. Said he: "I would be a Fascist now or at any time in the past. Though I was brought up in a particular environment, I'm a Fascist in logic and conviction as well as in sentiment." He thinks that Italians were lots jollier under the Duce...
...Archbishop José Humberto Quintero, 58, of Caracas, Venezuela, was born of humble parents in the Andean village of Mucuchies, near Mérida, won scholarships to continue his education in Rome and eventually became dean of Mérida University's law school. A genial, round-faced scholar and amateur portrait painter. Quintero will be the first cardinal in Venezuela's history...
...year-old Hungarian linguist who for the last eight years has been teaching and farming in a small town near Sāo Paulo, Brazil. When he first read A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, he apparently thought of all those poor little children in ancient Rome who would never be able to read it, and he felt just awful. There was only one thing to do: translate it for them. So he did. Unfortunately, publication in ancient Rome turned out to be impractical, so Dr. Lenard paid for his book's first edition himself. Surprisingly, there...
...number 3.2 million, governed by elected representatives organized in sessions, presbyteries, synods and an annual General Assembly, headed by a Moderator and Stated Clerk (chief executive officer). The Presbyterian Church was built upon Calvinism, founded by John Calvin in the 16th century soon after Luther's break with Rome. Presbyterians rely for faith and conduct on the Bible, believe in the Trinity, stressing the supreme sovereignty of God. Some doctrines such as predestination, once identified with Presbyterians, have largely fallen into discard. They practice the sacraments of baptism and communion, in which Christ is held to be present...
...level gossip, she gives a picture of the astonishing toughness of the British aristocracy. For all the physical grace and fragility that made her famous as an amateur actress playing madonna and nun in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, in time of war no patrician matron of Imperial Rome could have been more intransigent, bellicose and stoic. Despite invincible fear of air travel, she flew with Duff in countless trips to zones of war, sometimes "hard-arse" (Lady Diana's phrase). She endured inconceivable official tedium, the horrors of the Indian "lu."† saw a second English generation...