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...Square. When the smoke first began to curl out of a temporary rooftop chimney from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel at 6:24 p.m. on Saturday, it looked white?the traditional color to signal that the secret conclave within had elected a Pope. But could it be true? Not likely???not on the opening day of the largest, most complex gathering of Cardinal electors in the long pageant of papal elections. Sure enough, with dusk beginning to enfold the splendid statues and pillars of the Bernini colonnade, the smoke turned blacker, then gray. Exasperated, the Vatican Radio announcer said, "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Swift, Stunning Choice | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...French suggested four or five sites for the talks, including the old Hotel Majestic, which served as the Gestapo's Paris headquarters during World War II. More likely???and more remote?is either the Chateau de Champs on the Marne River or the Chateau de La Celle-Saint-Cloud, both set in wooded parks outside Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE VERY FIRST STEP | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands. The main source of Negro discontent is economic hardship. Fortunately, this is the one area where progress seems most likely???more and better jobs for Negroes are on the way. Already, 115 firms' have joined the Plans for Progress program backed by the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Of 60,000 new employees they hired in the past three months, 25% were Negro. Under past practice the figure would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

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