Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meeting with a group of baseball luminaries in the White House last week, Lyndon Johnson accepted a bat from Boston Red Sox Slugger Carl Yastrzemski, then clowned it up for photographers by faking a bunt. The action drew a telling comment from the American League batting champion. "You're too big to be a hunter," Yastrzemski chided the President. "You have to hit home runs...
Just about everything was there but a brass band. Military police in crisp red caps lined the road to the former royal villa on the edge of Gezira Island in the middle of the Nile in Cairo. One by one, twelve cars drew up to the door, and out of each stepped a neatly dressed civilian or high-ranking military officer, accompanied by a second officer and two soldiers. Inside the yellow stone villa, television cameras whirred and flashbulbs popped as the twelve men nodded quietly to friends and relatives, occasionally stopping to shake hands. Thus last week President Gamal...
...most of its century of life, Drew Theological School in Madison, N.J., has had a reputation as the nation's most intellectually adventurous and scholarly Methodist seminary. Within the past year, however, its dean has been dismissed, six of the 24 professors have quit for other jobs, and more resignations are expected in the near future...
Cause of the uproar is an administrative civil war between the seminary and parent Drew University, to which it is attached. Traditionally the university's most prestigious and powerful division, the seminary had its own operating budget and total autonomy to hire its own staff. A decade ago, however, Drew's trustees decided that it was time to bring the rest of the university up to the academic level of the seminary; to that end, they elected Robert Fisher Oxnam, son of the late Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, as the school's first lay president...
Formerly head of Pratt Institute, Oxnam had the trustees' approval to oversee all operations of the seminary as well as Drew's secular departments. Annoyed at their loss of control over budgets and policy, the seminary professors were furious when Oxnam vetoed a proposed faculty appointment on the ground that the salary offered the man was too high. Seminary Dean Charles W. Ranson then signed a confidential letter of complaint to the trustees-an action that Oxnam used as an excuse for firing him. Although Oxnam was backed by the trustees and by a special investigative committee appointed...