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...bone-wearying agenda-with the 42nd revision in the schedule made practically as the Pope was en route to London on Friday. On Pentecost Sunday, he appeared before gatherings of British-Polish groups in south London, then went on to Coventry and Liverpool. Shrewdly, for Liverpool, the Pontiff planned visits to the cathedrals of both Anglican and Catholic communions. On Monday, after visiting Manchester and York, the Pope's schedule took him to Edinburgh. On Tuesday, his plans called for an ecumenical meeting with representatives of Scottish churches, then a quick series of appearances at events around Glasgow...
EVER SINCE THE DAY Washington Irving disembarked in Liverpool to sketch the English countryside. American writers have ventured to foreign locales in search of a sensibility they have felt they could only capture abroad. Henry Adams and Ezra Pound. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald all passed their moments in Europe against the backdrop of a culture that far overshadowed their...
Kathleen Spitzer Liverpool...
...months when John Paul goes to England, the first visit ever by a Pope. With news of the reunion proposals having leaked, there are already signs of resistance. Last week Archbishop of Canterbury Runcie was forced to abandon a speech on Catholic relations when 150 members of the Liverpool congregation he was addressing staged a noisy protest...
...popular former Education Minister in the Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Callaghan, Williams scored her victory in a by-election in Crosby, a backwater suburb of Liverpool that had sent Tories to Westminster since 1918. In the last election, the Tories' victory margin was 19,000 votes. Williams not only won by 5,000 votes; she captured 49.1% of the tally, compared with 39.8% for the Tories and 9.5% for Labor. Proclaimed London's Daily Mirror with unabashed admiration: "Shirley the First...