Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their ministers with sure-thing stock market tips; talented accountants in the congregation can help a pastor cut his tax liabilities; in rural districts the laity still follows the old frontier custom of helping out the preacher by stocking his larder with food from time to time. The once generous discounts offered clergymen by railroads and stores have been restricted, reduced or cut out. But on balance, says a lay official of the National Lutheran Council, "ministers never had it so good. If pastors had to settle for a straight salary, you'd hear them crying to Kingdom Come...
...what you do with it." With his four brothers (Nelson, 54, Laurance, 52, Winthrop, 50, and John D. Ill, 56), David does plenty with Rockefeller wealth. Among them, the brothers are active in some 200 causes, ranging from the Rockefeller Institute for medical research to Colonial Williamsburg. Their generous philanthropies and their Inter national Basic Economy Corp., which underwrites businesslike ventures in developing lands, make it possible for helicopters to spray coffee trees in Brazil, low-cost housing to rise in Chile, astronomers to search the skies from Mount Palomar, textile machinery to hum in the Congo, supermarkets to peddle...
...sugar plantation on Negros Island into one of the Philippines' biggest business empires. In 1947, Eugenio bought Manila's morning Chronicle (circ. 44,750), and by adding to it a string of 25 TV and radio stations soon emerged as a communications king. In 1951, with a generous loan from the state-owned Philippine National Bank, he bought Asia's largest sugar refinery, the Binalbagan-Isabela Sugar Co., Inc. Last year, after expanding the Lopez holdings to include more sugar mills, a cement company and a jute-bag plant, the brothers pulled off their biggest coup. Worried...
...thing, the hero's heroism looks less heroic every minute. No doubt he was moved by a generous impulse when he offered to rescue the President; but he was also moved by a merely conventional sympathy for the underdog, by a sentimental horror of violence, by a hysterical temptation to escape from his miserable self. What's more, an admirable act has not made him admirable; he is still silly and incompetent, and when he isn't barking at her mechanically he still wriggles with lap-dogged devotion for the bitch he is tied...
...hearty thanks for your generous approval of the fine arts exhibit at our Seattle World's Fair [TIME...