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...fairly typical day last week, Humphrey dropped by the White House at 8 a.m., conferred with Presidential Aide Bill Moyers, then went to his desk in the Executive Office Building across the street. There he talked with a West German industrialist and Brazil's Archbishop Helder Pessoa Camara before dashing back to the White House to huddle with Johnson and Senate leaders about legislative plans and programs. Next, Humphrey was off to the Hill to preside over the opening of the day's Senate session ("You keep hearing people say that presiding over the Senate is a dull...
...dozen roles and garbs. He was a specialist in nothing-except courage, imagination, intelligence. He was never afraid to lead, and he knew that a leader must sometimes risk failure and disapproval rather than seek universal acclaim. He had been, as Denis Brogan put it, "everything but the Archbishop of Canterbury"-and he often seemed more confident than any archbishop that he had the ear of God and was watched over with solicitude by angels...
...Kindly Pastor. Among so many cardinals, at least one was sure to be an American, but the Pope's choice was close to being a surprise: shy, tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Lawrence Joseph Shehan, 66, who has been Archbishop of Baltimore since 1961. He becomes the sixth U.S. cardinal, and the second in the history of the nation's oldest diocese.* A kindly pastor who still makes sick calls and regularly hears confession in Baltimore's Mary Our Queen Cathedral, Shehan is also a forceful worker for civil rights and Christian unity. He has banned...
...Shehan's elevation to the cardinalate was unexpected-there were Vatican observers who thought Philadelphia's energetic Archbishop John Krol a more plausible candidate-other appointments were not. Some of Paul's red hats went to men who govern ancient European sees that have come to expect cardinal-archbishops as a matter of course-Milan's Giovanni Colombo, for example, and Florence's Ermenegildo Florit. As Archbishop of Westminster, England's primatial Catholic see, John Carmel Heenan had a right to expect a cardinalate; so did Archbishop William Conway of Armagh, the Primate...
...command of their sees: Ukrainian Metropolitan Josyf Slipyi, who came to Rome in 1963 after 18 years of Soviet imprisonment, and Czech Primate Josef Beran, who is still under virtual house arrest near Prague. One new East European cardinal who does govern his diocese is Yugoslavia's Primate, Archbishop Franjo Seper of Zagreb. His careful policy of accommodation with Tito may lead to a restoration of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Yugoslavia...