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Engelhard is almost as busy in U.S. politics as in business. A big contributor to the Democratic Party, he organized the National Committee of Business and Professional Men and Women for Kennedy and Johnson. After the success he scored with this operation, there is gossip that he may be in line for a high Government post or for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey. Of these rumors, says Engelhard: "I'm not in search of a new job, as I am quite gainfully and actively employed, but I would give any proposal consideration...
...Frederick Lugard (later Lord Lugard) began his campaigns against the Northern emirs, British rule in Nigeria was an accepted international fact. But even yet no one conceived of northern and southern Nigeria as having anything but a geographical connection; the word Nigeria itself was coined by a London Times contributor named Flora Shaw-who later became Lady Lugard. Not until 1914, when Lugard, one of Britain's great colonial administrators, took over as Governor General of both North and South, was modern Nigeria born...
...Tuesday night's confirmed figures, Eliot House was the leading contributor among the Houses with $610.50. Following in second place was Winthrop House, with donations amounting to $500. The lowest total was registered by Claverly, which turned...
Leverett House was the leading contributor in partial totals with over $900 already credited to its donors...
...thesis would apply in the cases of France's President Charles de Gaulle and Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, both of whom are notably devout Christians, and notably not weak leaders. The editors of Christian Century felt bound to offer a rebuttal of their own contributor. "We sympathize with (Martin's respect for competence in politics," they wrote, "but cannot accept his implication that vital faith necessarily constitutes an insuperable obstacle to such competence." The editors insist that though Lincoln was not a churchgoer, he was a devout Christian who "humbly subjected all his judgments and decisions...