Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbia, after losing to Yale 20-12 last week, will rely on Jimmy Lu at 123 and Mike Quinn at 135 to help pull away from Harvard early in the match. Quinn, a junior, was 10-0 last year, and has lost only one match this season...
...John Hancock, which is also constructing a new 60-story headquarters building in Boston, the Chicago venture represents the biggest real estate investment in its history. The project was actually the brainchild of Philadelphia Developer Jerry Wolman, who proposed that John Hancock help finance it. The company agreed, paid out $6,000,000 for a block-long parcel of land on fashionable North Michigan Avenue and leased it to Wolman. Soon after ground was broken in late 1965, however, Wolman found himself overextended in a number of other financial dealings. His troubles were aggravated when a faulty support caisson required...
...former clergymen, a representative sample compiled coast to coast from names supplied by agencies who help ex-priests adjust to secular life, found that their chief problems in obtaining jobs were lack of skills (28%), overcoming lack of confidence (29%) and deciding what new career to follow (47%). Although the average priest was 38 years old, only 14% found age to be a drawback. Nearly all held bachelor's or advanced degrees-four out of five in theology-but few felt that their specialized education created any employment obstacles...
...Midas flair for making money, Stone is equally skilled at giving it away. Last year the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation, the fund that he shares with his wife, donated $4,500,000, mostly in the fields of mental health, religion and education. Characteristically, Stone helps those who help themselves: almost all of his grants require the recipients to raise some money as well...
...says: "I could work myself into the grave with my music and the piano, not really learning what life is all about. And I think this is the crux of the change in young people today. They don't want material, they want experience." If music will help, Hollander will provide...