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...moribund parish; on the side, he undertook some "whistlestop mission preaching" that honed his skills at improvising in the pulpit. In 1949, he took over as chaplain at Columbia University and head of its meager religion department. Pike brought in good new teachers, including Paul Tillich as an adjunct professor. To upgrade his own academic credentials, Pike submitted chapters of his book Faith of the Church (written with Norman Pittenger and still used in Episcopal lay teaching), plus some other writing and his law doctorate, and got a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary without taking a single...
Ordinarily, talk about higher taxes is not very cheery. But U.S. stock and bond investors last week seemed to brighten up just when word got out that the Johnson Administration was seriously considering tax increases as an adjunct to tight money in the fight against inflation. Both stock and bond prices improved, but then at week's end, the stock market lost about a third of the week's gains, partly because the impression grew that Washington might not act swiftly...
...adjunct to the Center is a reference library and study, also open to the public, located on the mezzanine. Here the student or out-of-town visitor may consult reference books and read U.S. and foreign newspapers and magazines. These days the library also houses one elusive yellow-breasted finch, a dropout from last fall's live show on animal behavior. It stayed behind when the other Ijirds and bees were taken away, is living it up on the seed that the Center people set out every evening. Since no one has been able to lay a hand...
...point where arteries branch off to supply the brain. The lower part of the body could be deprived of its blood supply long enough to let the surgeons cut out the diseased section and replace it with knit Dacron tubing. When the heart-lung machine became a practical adjunct in surgery, the horizon was suddenly widened. It became possible to operate anywhere along the aorta, while the machine supplied blood continuously to the brain...
Many evenings there are lines outside his basement nightclub, "Catacombs 65" (from the church's address, 65 Quai d'Orsay), waiting to drink coffee or lemonade and hear young singers and musicians. In another adjunct of the church, its 300-seat theater, the professional Paris Theater Workshop-whose advisers include Jean Seberg and William Saroyan-presents Sartre, Beckett and Albee as part of "Open End," a freewheeling series of dramas, concerts and discussions...