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...House Assembly Hall, stared listlessly at the agenda-the revised catechism, an address on science and religion, "Is Suicide a Sin?" But with the Archbishop's first sentence came a fluttering of crimson surplices and white lawn sleeves. After 15 years in the see of St. Augustine, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, announced his retirement...
...Lordship, Arthur Michael Ramsey, who will become the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury when Dr. Geoffrey Fisher steps down on May 31, is a massive man of God. Though he is only 56, his large, white-tufted head and ponderous dignity make him look, as a fellow cleric puts it, "at least a thousand years old. When he surges majestically up the aisle of York Cathedral, you feel that all the power and authority of Christendom are concentrated in his stooping presence...
...architect because he wanted to work on his own without having to meet the demands of clients, contractors and zoning laws. Unsure where his tastes and talents lay, he began by cutting out mobiles, only to find the shapes too "rigid"' for his taste. Like Reg Butler and Geoffrey Clarke, his most notable English contemporaries, Chadwick took to the welding torch...
...recession (the Government economists preferred to call it a downturn) is the mildest since World War II, has been going on for six months, and stems in large part from the economy's failure to emerge strongly enough from the 1957-58 recession. "In no case," said Geoffrey Moore of the National Bureau of Economic Research, "is the contraction as widespread as it eventually became...
...black limousine flying the Union Jack swept past the colonnaded grandeur of the Piazza. San Pietro and into a Vatican courtyard. Out stepped the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England. Escorted by the black-clad Chamberlain of Cape and Sword, the Archbishop strode by colorful Swiss Guards armed with halberds and entered the papal apartments. "Your Holiness, we are making history," said the Archbishop to Pope John XXIII. For an hour, alone except for an interpreter, the two churchmen spoke of matters temporal and spiritual...