Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's medal for coolness in a crisis goes to Ned Harris, owner of the Atlas Window Cleaning Contractors, who was plying his trade outside the 20th floor of Honolulu's Chateau Waikiki when the rope holding up his window chair broke...
...unusually long interim between Paul's death (Aug. 6) and the beginning of the conclave (Aug. 25). The Cardinals had plenty of time to get together in small groups and large, conferring, trading intelligence, lobbying ever so discreetly. By last Friday, when they assembled at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica, beneath Bernini's stained-glass window portraying the Holy Spirit as a white dove in a solid circle of gold, they had carefully weighed all the papabili (possible Popes). During a Mass celebrated in Latin, the Cardinals invoked divine guidance for the task ahead...
...before the world's Catholics can adequately take the measure of their new Pope. But they can take comfort from his insistence that "I am only a poor man, accustomed to little things, and in silence." That is a humble assessment, worthy of a man who would take the Chair of Peter and become the Vicar of Christ...
...John Fischer, 68, gentlemanly editor of Harper's magazine from 1953 to 1967; of complications following surgery; in New Haven, Conn. Fischer imbued Harper's with graceful, intelligent prose and humor. He became known for encouraging writers and for the cool reason of his column, "The Easy Chair...
...then later read the statistics. There were only 7,000 killed. But in the process, I became an expert on World War II. I knew more than anybody because I read all the books." His editor, Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman, remembers his new writer "leaning back in his chair, a large cigar in his mouth, reading six books at once, three in each arm, like he was tasting food...