Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hello, Kim? This is Jim," said California's retiring Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike into a phone at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. "Has anyone told you the news?" No one had. But there was no better way for Michigan's Suffragan Bishop C. (for Chauncie) Kilmer Myers, awakened at 3:30 a.m. at his home in Detroit, to learn that he had just been elected Pike's successor...
...budget is up from $349,000 to $894,000-and the deficit may reach $80,000 this year, partly because of decreased giving by grumbling parishioners. Pike has delighted some and scandalized others by allowing a policy of open communion in his diocese, and by permitting the use of Grace Cathedral for a modern art exhibit, a jazz mass, and the premiere of Duke Ellington's In the Beginning...
...Pike joins the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara. He calls himself a "worker-priest in the purple"-a somewhat oblique reference to the fact that, as a result of a resolution passed by the delegates, he will stay on at Grace Cathedral in the largely honorary job of auxiliary bishop...
...course, have hardly changed. The mean streak is still there; and occasionally, when a Sam Yorty sits down in the witness chair opposite him, it shows through. "He doesn't like to lose," says Teddy, and it is hard to imagine his ever learning to do so with grace in anything from touch football to politics. He evokes intense responses, from fiercely loyal affection to unalterable hostility-and occasionally the baffled feeling that he has yet to find his own identity...
...Still, being lawyers, the men running the funds have hedged their bounty with "certain basic principles" in fine print. ''Negligent acts or conduct" by lawyers, for example, rate nothing from the funds and, cautiously adds the A.B.A. committee, "payment out of the fund is a matter of grace, not of right...