Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, took up a Christian cudgel in defense of Nikita Khrushchev. Speaking to members of the British Council of Churches (representing many Protestant denominations), the archbishop decried the fact that no eminent Christian group has endorsed Khrushchev's total disarmament proposals at the U.N. (TIME, Sept. 28). Declared His Grace: "No Christian could possibly have put forward a better plan than this. Mr. Khrushchev could not more effectively have read the New Testament...
Bach: Arias (The Bach Aria Group, conducted by William Scheide; Decca). One of the nation's finest chamber groups, including Soprano Eileen Farrell and Tenor Jan Peerce, offers masterful performances of some little-known arias and duets from the Bach cantatas. At least two of them-Gott versorget alles Leben from Cantata 187 and Wenn kommt der Tag from Cantata 70-deserve a place on any Bach shelf...
...them to keep samples of their urine all day on the job, and a nighttime specimen for comparison. Analysis showed what happened to the excretion (and therefore, presumably, to the body's output) of various kinds of hormones. Adrenocortical hormones such as hydrocortisone were similar in the two groups, and varied little between day and night. But on the job, the competitive men's adrenaline jumped 86% above night readings, as against 36% for the comparison group. With noradrenaline, said Dr. Friedman, the jump was still more pronounced: 173% compared with 64%. In large amounts, both these hormones...
...service is unexcelled. It will do everything from solving the complex problem of establishing the market values of new shares-even though the companies have no established value-to working out a novel method of financing freight cars or oil tankers. After being turned down by several banks, a group of utilities that wanted to finance an atomic reactor turned to Morgan; in a few days, the bank set up the plan to do the job. When General Electric asked Morgan Guaranty to buy up the shares of an affiliate abroad, the bank doggedly pursued one widow from city...
...hauled down to Washington to appear before a whole series of investigations. Control of U.S. finance passed from Wall Street to Washington. Regulatory bodies were established, restrictive bills passed, the Federal Reserve strengthened. The Banking Act of 1933 forced Morgan to split off its investment-banking activities, and a group of partners left to form the separate investment house of Morgan, Stanley...