Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortunately for him, Wilson had some help at Scarborough. Chancellor...
...Soviet offi cials, who offered him both military and economic assistance "in principle" but mentioned no specifics. That was just fine with the King; he preferred not to sign anything and to keep the promises general. Thus, without obligating himself to the Russians, he can use their offers of help to show Washington and London that he has other places to go if they do not give him what he wants. As for the Israelis, Hussein told the Russians that he is willing to make contact with them through a third party and do some good old-fashioned horse trading...
...voice of conservatism in the church comes from a group called Concerned Presbyterians, which has a full-time field director who lobbies for its outlook with local congregations, and whose members help support a new and extremely orthodox seminary in Jackson, Miss. Concerned Presbyterians fear that the church's increasing involvement in social issues is a radical departure from its historic traditions. The group, explains its president, Miami Realtor Kenneth Keyes Sr., "would like to return the church to its basic purpose-leading unsaved souls to Christ. We think that the individual Christian should be involved...
...million academic-improvement program at Notre Dame is to set up 40 endowed chairs at $500,000 each. Harvard, which has more than 300 endowed chairs, has been able to create 90 of them since 1959. The public universities are eying the same kind of financial help. The University of Minnesota is trying to find donors for 20 chairs, while Wisconsin already has 64 chairs and is seeking more...
From Cool to Hottest. Slowly, Tony's yard in South Orange began to fill with huge, geometric shapes. Except for The Black Box, Die, and a third piece called Free Ride, all were plywood mockups, built with the help of friends and coated with auto-body underpaint. (Like Henry Ford, Tony believes in letting the customer have any color, so long as it's black.) "I never thought of them as sculpture," says Tony today. "I thought of them as basic design." But other sculptors in other studios were building basic boxes and calling it art. A trend...