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...joyless, frantic materialism that characterizes much of postwar German life-"the medieval choir stall in the dining room, the conspicuous consumption, the complete lack of taste in art and literature." Complains one sophisticated young princess: "If the Ford Foundation really wants to do something for Germany, it should endow a salon in Bonn. Just a little salon. The old society is dead...
...Thomson is after a title, as some say he is, that ambition got a significant boost last fall when he peeled $14 million from his pile to endow a charitable foundation in his name. The money is earmarked for the sort of things that might well help to land a man in Burke's Peerage: the training of journalists and the improvement of communications media in underdeveloped countries, chiefly Africa. Thomson does not deny the ambition, but neither does he profess it. He has told inquirers that he once traced his ancestry back to 1540, "when two of them...
...Christian history?that merely by summoning Vatican II to "renew" the Roman Catholic Church Pope John made the biggest individual imprint on the year. But revolutions in Christianity are even rarer (the Reformation was 400 years ago), and John's historic mission is fired by a desire to endow the Christian faith with "a new Pentecost," a new spirit. It is aimed not only at bringing the mother church of Christendom into closer touch with the modern world, but at ending the division that has dissipated the Christian message for four centuries...
...Porter left the University a direct bequest of slightly over $1 million. She asked for several specific expenditures, concerned in large part with libraries and museums; and she said that all remaining funds should be used to endow the new humanities-social sciences chair. A spokesman for the University's financial offices said yesterday that between $500,000 and $600,000 would be available for this purpose...
...Because of S.A.O. terrorists' attempt on his life fortnight ago, De Gaulle finally indicated last week that he would seek a referendum next month calling for direct, popular election to the presidency. The move is designed to endow De Gaulle's eventual successor with the same prestige and authority that he himself already possesses...