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...last November, church watchers and the oddsmakers at Ladbroke's began guessing which of the realm's 18 bishops would replace him. Last week Pope Paul VI provided the answer: none of them. He bypassed the entire hierarchy and appointed instead tall, white-haired Dom George Basil Hume, 52, abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Ampleforth in Yorkshire. Hume is the first monk to become Archbishop of Westminster since England in 1850 permitted the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy...
These qualities apparently include a reputation for scholarship, in addition to administrative acumen-in Hume's case, earned in the limited sphere of Ampleforth. There he has headed since 1963 a community of 130 scholastics, as well as a distinguished boarding school. While Heenan and most of the other bishops have been ethnic Irish, Hume is an upper-middle-class Englishman with useful Establishment connections. No bookworm, he is also a fitness buff devoted to jogging and squash...
Later, in her San Francisco County jail cell, she tried to explain. As always, her thoughts were disjointed. "It was kind of an ultimate protest against the system," Moore told Los Angeles Times Reporter Ellen Hume. "I did not want to kill somebody, but there comes a point when the only way you can make a statement is to pick up a gun." She rationalized, "I was driven...
...after her arrest, Moore summoned Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Ellen Hume, one of the few people who had listened sympathetically to her earlier stories. To the reporter she tried to explain what drove her to an act that she says she really wanted to be prevented from committing. Dressed in a red sweater over a white nightgown, Moore talked for two hours by telephone in the glass-partitioned visiting room at the San Francisco county jail. "I knew I was rapidly reaching a point that all avenues of taking action were being closed off, one at a time...
...feelings among upper-level society that "opulence" for the "lower ranks" would be very dangerous. Smith's revolutionary concepts took some time to catch on. But The Wealth of Nations was read by all the leading intellects of the time and praised by many, including Smith's friends David Hume and Edmund Burke. By the early 19th century, Smith's doctrine had conquered the academic world and began inspiring governments to unchain their economies. In 1846, for example, British reformers quoting The Wealth of Nations repealed the Corn Laws, which had kept food prices high by restricting imports. U.S. state...