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...Michael Ramsey is also a complex churchman who is facing complex 20th century problems. A Cambridge-trained scholar and theologian, he came to Canterbury with a reputation for both deep spirituality and donnish wit-a man unwilling to compromise his own stern theology, but so fond of epigrams that he gives them up for Lent. Frankly at home in high-church ceremony, he nonetheless seems at times the amiable country parson, enjoying simple amusement in self-deflation. Archbishop Ramsey always signs his name "Michael Cantuar"-the traditional Latin abbreviation for Canterbury -but he sometimes autographs pictures "Michael, Archbishop of Canterbury...
Democrat Barnett is fond of pointing to his childhood poverty. "We were poor, poor," he says. "I wasn't raised in a hothouse." The youngest of ten children, he paid his way through Mississippi College and the University of Mississippi law school by working as a barber and a janitor. But once he got his law degree, he left poverty behind. Specializing in damage suits, he proved to be a skillful picker and swayer of juries, became the state's top lawyer in his field, with an income estimated at $100,000 a year...
Novelist Powers is anything but anticlerical, but in his sly, fond way he can twit the clerics sharply. He has a fine eye for the kind of Catholic foible that makes other Catholics wince. The founder of the Clementine order, for instance, was the (imaginary) martyr St. Clement, who was pressed to death between millstones. Naturally, given the Catholic fondness for sanguinary names, the order's publishing house is called the Millstone Press. The dear, droll priest has cluttered up magazines (Father Juniper) and movie houses (Bing and Barry) for years. The work of J. F. Powers...
Harvard is also fond of the "outside belly" or "ride" series, perfected at Oklahoma by Bud Wilkenson. The key man in the series is the quarterback, and Bassett excells in this type of work. In the play, when run from the basic-T, the fullback and the right half-back both plunge toward the tackle. The left half-back runs wide to the right and parallel to the line of scrimmage. The quarterback takes the snap and thrusts the ball into the belly of the fullback (giving the series its name). He has the option of letting the fullback keep...
...current president is a great-great-grandson of the original Amory, boyishly intense Amory ("Amo") Houghton Jr., 36, who stepped up after Decker, 61, was named chairman last year. Like his predecessors, Amo Houghton is dedicated to the formula of freewheeling, long-range basic-research spending-he is fond of calling it "patient money"-that has become Corning's hallmark. Currently, Corning's research and development bill is running at the rate of $13 million a year-which is equivalent to 50% of the company's net profits last year...