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...nerve center of this operation is a Minneapolis office building, where a staff of 100 handles the mail (12,000-15,000 pieces a week incoming, 8,000-10,000 a day outgoing) and keeps tabs on far-flung activities of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Here, amid whirring office machines, the spirit of I.B.M. meets the Spirit. Each morning, before she starts tabulating the incoming contributions, one girl clerk puts her fingers on the adding machine and says: "This is your money, God. Make it come out right...
...Imperialism" is a term that belongs in the Classical vocabulary of Communist abuse. If the Russians use it with exceptional skill, it is only because they have an appreciation of its meaning. For within the USSR lies an empire as diverse and far-flung as anything the pre-Marxian world could assemble. The Formation of the Soviet Union, by Richard Pipes of the Russian Research Center, is a study of this empire in the making. Along with the gross anatomy of acquisition, Pipes combines a more rewarding discussion of the physiology of the empire, tracing the course of the troublesome...
Died. Adrian D. (for Dwight) Joyce, 81, chairman of the board of the far-flung Glidden Co.; of a heart ailment; in Cleveland. Resourceful Tycoon Joyce bought the Glidden Varnish Co. in 1917, turned waste materials into byproducts and byproducts into big business; in 37 years he built Glidden from a $2,500,000-a-year company to one nearly 100 times that size, ranging the market from powdered copper to charcoal, from soybeans to sandwich spreads...
...acts for the Secretary of State, and in the absence of the Secretary of State, he becomes the acting Secretary of State." If the Secretary does not happen to care for administrative work, as John Foster Dulles does not, the Under Secretary becomes virtually the administrative head of the far-flung department...
...Scarface") Capone's muscleboy during the racketeering heydays of the '205 and '303; of a shotgun blast (triggerman unknown) fired as he was opening his garage in Chicago's West Side. Swarthy, hotheaded Hoodlum Mariotte made a fortune as manager of Capone's far-flung network of brothels, since 1948 has been a Chicago contractor...