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Arkansas celebrates its 150th anniversary as a U.S. territory this year, and Lily Peter, a wealthy, plantation-owning spinster, decided that a musical tribute would be just the thing to mark the occasion. Trouble is, she conceded, "we are as far removed from the great world of music as if we lived on the rings of Saturn." So Miss Peter, 73, persuaded Composer Norman Dello Joio to write a special work for the sesquicentennial, then hired Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra to come to Little Rock to play it. She mortgaged a small portion of her land to foot...
Much of the credit for the upset belongs to coach Bruce Munro, who notched his 150th victory, Munro made extensive use of his third midfield to rest the other two lines, and it worked well as the midfielders did not tire late in the game as they usually do. "The coach really played his cards right," Regan said...
Parishioners at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church in San Francisco were probably surprised to find themselves celebrating the 150th birthday anniversary of Socialist Philosopher Karl Marx during a Sunday Communion service. But the Rt. Rev. James A. Pike, who officiated, found the idea easy to explain. Marx, figures Pike, who resigned as Bishop of California in 1966, would have several things in common with today's Christian church and vice versa. "Both Christianity and Communism have demythologized themselves eschatologically," the bishop said. "Christians no longer believe in a Second Coming, And the Communists have given up the theory...
...industrialists, foreign bankers and wives who gathered in Seattle last week were anything but an ordinary group. By one awed (and decidedly exaggerated) estimate, they commanded 90% of the free world's capital. The occasion: a five-day traveling party to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Manhattan-based Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., the largest, and by far the oldest U.S. private bank...
...better time," allowed Lieut. Commander John Brame, a member of Erv Johnson's Naval At tack Squadron VA776 at Los Alamitos, Calif. Brame, a real estate salesman, had just concluded a big project and currently has "nothing in escrow." Air Force 2nd Lieut. Jim Riordan, 25, of the 150th Tactical Fighter Group, Albuquerque, N. Mex., was all ready to go and "even looking forward to it. In the back of my mind, I figured we would be called...