Word: humes
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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...
After the appointment, Hume indicated that he had had no desire to leave Ampleforth. He learned of his appointment by telephone during dinner. Said he: "I must confess I did not enjoy the rest of the meal." But "a monk does not choose what he does; he does what he is told by his authorities...
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...