Word: arnolds
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...ARNOLD M. SWEIG...
...donors included Arnold Toynbee and David Dubinsky. Charles Malik and Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot and Eleanor Roosevelt. They and 66 other sponsors had joined to raise $250,000 for a going-away present to Reinhold Niebuhr. the U.S.'s best-known theologian, retiring this month at 68 as vice president and senior faculty member of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. The gift: a Reinhold Niebuhr professorship of social ethics. Its first incumbent: Congregationalist John Coleman Bennett. 57, dean of the faculty and professor of applied Christianity at Union, who, like his friend Niebuhr. is deeply concerned with...
...average, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week, almost 2% above a year ago. The rise resulted chiefly from a 1.5% increase in food prices, which account for about 30% of the index. "This does not mark the beginning of a strong upward trend," said Arnold Chase, chief of the bureau's price division, although he expects the index to rise gradually through the summer. The rise means automatic wage increases of 1? or 2? an hour for more than 1,000,000 workers with escalator clauses in their contracts...
...Purchased for $2,500 two years ago. Bally Ache was sold by Owner Leonard Fruchtman for $1,250,000 to a syndicate headed by Joseph L. Arnold of Lexington. Ky., which was undismayed by the fact that the three-year-old colt finished second in the Kentucky Derby...
...more eccentric vein. Graves maintains that neither Benedict Arnold nor Judas were traitors. Sample argument: "A dishonest treasurer, as Judas is represented as being, would not have sold out at that petty price." The title piece of Food for Centaurs is a superlative action shot of Graves in the fine, frenzied throes of a theory. By some recondite detective work, he reaches the conclusion that the centaurs' food was mushrooms. It was a very special scarlet-capped European mushroom, known as the fly-amanite. According to Graves, this mushroom is fiery to the taste, imparts extraordinary muscular strength...