Word: christianae
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...nearly a week, the slim, greying American walked through the winding streets of Assisi, pausing now and then before the office of Father Giovanni Rossi, founder of an institute for lay Catholics called Pro-Civitate-Christiana. Finally, he burst in on the priest. "Of course," he blurted out. "I must be converted." Two weeks later, Artist William Congdon was baptized as a Roman Catholic, and -as he puts it-"fell into the church as a child abandons itself to the mother...
Still at issue is what will happen to the G.M. shares that normally would be distributed to the Du Pont-family-controlled Christiana Securities Co.. which owns 29% of the common shares in Du Pont. The Justice Department charges that such a distribution to Christiana would simply preserve the Du Pont influence in G.M. Trustbusters are fighting to force Christiana to sell off any G.M. stock that it gets. That issue is expected to be decided this spring by Chicago's Federal District Judge Walter J. La Buy, 72, who has wrestled with the Du Pont antitrust case...
...SPLIT was authorized for common stock of Christiana Securities Co., the holding company controlled by the Du Ponts. Present price: around $15,800. Number of shares authorized will go from 150,000 to 12 million. Christiana's principal holdings: 27% of Du Pont, which in turn owns 22% of General Motors...
...family companies that could meet such requirements often stay on because they prefer not to issue the detailed financial reports required by the exchanges, or they have stocks that are only of local interest or so high-priced that orders are too infrequent to justify an exchange listing. Examples: Christiana Securities, at $15,000 a share, and Los Angeles Turf Club, at $70,000 a share...
Accompanied by his chic French wife Christiana, Matta set up housekeeping in a native hut. A slight (barely 100 Ibs.) man with bristling black hair and piercing eyes, he had a strange way with the wild animals-antelopes, buffaloes, lions, elephants-that were his charges, walked fearlessly among the wildest and greatest beasts. He always refused to carry a weapon against them. "If I did," he said, "even not to use it, the charm wou'd vanish, for I would have the overwhelming conviction of having committed a betrayal of the animals' trust." He bathed with hippos, swam...