Word: convert
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Supposed Properties. Houston Endowment Inc. is a $400 million nonprofit foundation set up by the late Jesse Jones, onetime U.S. Commerce Secretary and owner of the Chronicle. Recently, the trustees of the foundation, notably President J. Howard Creekmore, became anxious to convert the paper and other Endowment holdings into cash; last December they happily accepted an offer of $85 million from Mecom. In return, Mecom was to get the Chronicle, the well-located Chronicle Building and Rice Hotel, and a 30% controlling interest in the Texas National Bank of Commerce, second largest in town. Mecom...
...compensation. A Salvation Army worker was told that she had "neglected to fulfill the guest's obligation-which is to know when to go home." Remembering that the churches flourished during the Japanese occupation of Burma in World War II, older missionaries are confident that Christianity's convert leaders (among them 750 Baptist ministers) can carry on successfully. Younger clergymen, however, are not so sure, and the Roman Catholics are downright pessimistic. More than half of the Catholic clergy are foreign-born, including five of Burma's eight bishops, and the country has only one, poorly staffed...
...first actions of the Committee was the nomination of the Bliss Fellows. Four young scholars in the social sciences were promised future faculty appointments and offered extensive travel and research grants if they would convert themselves into Latin American experts. Meanwhile, the Committee, through its executive secretary William Barnes, began the inevitable search for funds from sources outside the University. The initial results were quite good. For the past two years Harvard has shared with five other universities a Ford Foundation grant of $1 million for a faculty exchange program. Young Latin American professors, such as Helio Jaquaribe, Visiting Lecturer...
...Oriental princess. Seven years ago, Nilsson recorded Puccini's last opera for RCA Victor, and now has repeated her triumphal performance. The plus value in the new set is Tenor Franco Corelli, who in brilliance and power is Nilsson's match, and as Calaf can credibly convert the cruel princess into a woman in love. The earlier recording is superior, however, having Erich Leinsdorf as conductor and a generally better cast, including Renata Tebaldi as the second female lead and Georgio Tozzi as the Tartar king...
Counter-Bloc. That was true enough. Yet King had himself helped solidify the white vote by stumping the state to rally Negro support for State Attorney General Richmond Flowers, a fairly recent convert to racial moderation, who had gone all out for the Negro vote. As expected, the great majority of Negroes cast their ballots for Flowers. But the specter of a black-bloc vote effectively polarized the whites, whose unexpectedly unified vote sent Lurleen Wallace soaring ahead of Flowers and all eight other opponents. Without the open threat of a monolithic black ballot, white Alabamians' votes...