Word: excepts
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...compact has remained inviolate; members of all races (the church was desegregated at the close of the Civil War) and all major Protestant denominations have worshiped in Dr. Kirk's church (except, as a rule, Episcopalians, who usually go to one of Paris' Anglican churches or to the Episcopalian American Cathedral), in 1931 Dr. Joseph Cochran. a Presbyterian (now 90 and on hand for last week's celebrations), replaced the Rue de Berri church with a large Gothic church and a five-story community house on the Quai d'Orsay. When Presbyterian Williams took over...
...Toledo (pop. 330,000) after the teen-age daughter of a Lutheran minister told police that she had been raped by three Negroes. While the Blade story said merely that the girl had been attacked by "three boys," newscasts on all of Toledo's TV and radio stations except WTOL repeatedly identified the rapists as Negroes. After its home edition was delivered, the Blade was besieged with telephone calls accusing it of coddling Negroes...
...shaded lanes, easing his weight on a heavy stick. Invariably, they saluted him, for they knew that they were in the presence of greatness. His admirers indeed claimed Jean Sibelius as one of the century's greatest composers, and since he outlived all major contenders for the title except Stravinsky, during recent years he reigned in almost solitary splendor. Yet, compared to such contemporaries as Richard Strauss and Debussy, to say nothing of Alban Berg and Prokofiev, Sibelius often sounded cumbrous and provincial. No major composer stood more stubbornly aside from the 20th century's musical revolutions...
...steelmen and to all Indians (except Communists), Tata symbolizes one of the world's great success stories. The founder of the family fortunes was Jamsetji Tata (1839-1904), son of a Bombay merchant. Jamsetji went to England to study industrial techniques, went back to India and started a cotton mill. The mill grew into other enterprises. To cap his lifework, Jamsetji dreamed of starting an iron and steel mill. He died before his plans could be carried out, but three years later, in 1907, his sons started such a mill. Informed of their plans, Sir Frederick Upcott, chairman...
...become the core of a $320 million complex of more than 25 companies with 150,000 employees, 1956 sales of $155 million. Like other Indian businessmen, the Tatas strongly supported Indian independence. When it came, the Indian government was under strong pressure from the left to nationalize Tata Enterprises. Except for the Tata-founded Air India airline and the Tatas' life insurance business, which the government did take over, nationalization schemes came to naught. The chief reason was that if India bought out Tata Steel it would not have funds to finance more steel capacity. The government decided...