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...have toward race relations. Predictably enough, the document caused a sensation. Last week two more of his papers trickled out of the federal bureaucracy. Both were dated just before Richard Nixon was inaugurated as President, but they nevertheless drew fire from both conservatives and liberals and kept Moynihan a foremost topic of national controversy (TIME, March...
...Manhattan men, Irving Braverman and Sydney Rosenstein, were indicted for tax evasion on a large scale. According to the indictment, they own 50% of Foremost Brands Inc. and McInerney Sales Inc., and also acted as sales representatives in Europe for several U.S. corporations, making their sales largely to American PXs. They are accused of diverting some $3 million in commissions to a secret bank account through a dummy trust registered in Liechtenstein...
Senior wing Jack Tureo, the foremost Eagle hater of them all, tallied five goals and added an assist to personally eliminate B. C. from the tournament, but there were several others who had a hand in the victory...
...searching for the victims of Europe's latest avalanches (see THE WORLD), scientists atop an Alpine mountain were continuing the work that may some day prevent such disasters. They are members of Switzerland's Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, the world's first and foremost scientific establishment dedicated to the study and forecasting of avalanches. Before the institute was established 26 years ago, high above the resort town of Davos in the eternal snows of the 8,000-ft. Weissfluhjoch, knowledge of avalanches consisted mostly of folklore. Now, thanks to the institute's physicists...
...poor Marseille working-class family, he became a convert to the religious principles of Karl Barth and to the political ones of Karl Marx, in that order, by the age of 20. He remains a firm believer in both, and has been one of the foremost advocates of a Marxist-Christian dialogue. In attempting to reconcile the two, he applies Barth's lesson-"Whatever we say about God, it is men who say it"-to dialectical materialism. The humanism in both Christianity and Marxism, Garaudy believes, provides a meeting ground. He is the author of 22 books on subjects...