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Joyful Cedar Rapids Welcomes Exiled Cardinal Beran
Exiled Joseph Cardinal Beran of Czechoslovakia visited Cedar Rapids for a banquet at Armar ballroom where 625 attendees urged perseverance and joy in hard times. He expressed desire to return home someday, watched Pope John II and Paul VI ceremonies on TV, and received honorary citizenship from Mayor Robert Johnson.
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Cedar Rapids
Joseph Cardinal Beran
Czechoslovakia
Armar
First Presbyterian Church
Isaac
Neuman
Temple
Judah
Maurice S. Sheehy
St. Pius
Harold Wendorf
Chamber of Commerce
Cardinal
Mt. Mercy
Karlashis
Masaryk Chorus
Cardinal Beran
Mercy College
Cardinal Bevan
Robert Johnson
John C. Culver
Johnson
Culver
John F. Kennedy
Robert
Ted Kennedy
Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Arlington Cemetery
Washington
Dubuque
James J. Byrne
John
Francis W. Pritchard
Prague
St Wenceslaus Church
George Bishop
St. Wenceslaus
Des Moines
James Byrne
Msgr
A. W. Chihak
St Wenceslaus
Loras Watters
Maurice Sheehy
St. Pius Church
Joseph Cardinal Bevan
Bob Johnson