Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate, a public-service employment bill has been introduced by New York Republican Jacob Javits and Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson. Javits and Nelson, like Burns, call for $4 billion but only 500,000 jobs; they are thinking of average salaries of $8,000 while Burns' plan contemplates only $5,000. Illinois Republican Charles Percy has advocated the spending of an even greater sum: $6 billion...
...more readily use modern methods of biblical criticism and tend to view some supposedly historical passages (the Garden of Eden story, for example) as religious myth. At the Synod's convention in New Orleans last year, the conservatives consolidated their hold on the denomination by returning the Rev. Jacob A.O. ("Jack") Preus to the church's presidency and winning a majority on the board of its keystone theological school, Concordia Seminary of St. Louis...
...Died. Jacob Bronowski, 66, compleat scientist-humanist; of a heart attack; in East Hampton, N.Y. A Polish-born, Cambridge-trained mathematician who left a long career in teaching and government service in Britain in 1964 to join the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., as head of its Council for Biology in Human Affairs, Bronowski wrote brilliantly on the role of science in man's self-fulfillment, and the evolution of the human intellect and imagination. Author of Science and Human Values and, with Historian Bruce Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition, as well as two volumes on William Blake...
...Dobrynin meeting led in turn to one of Jerry Ford's most remarkable accomplishments of the week. A day later, he sat down to breakfast with three of the trade bill's staunchest critics, Senators Henry Jackson of Washington, Jacob Javits of New York and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. Richard Nixon had never met directly with Jackson or the other Senators to discuss the bill, and Ford's face-to-face meeting seemed to have paid off. White House sources said later that some sort of compromise appears to be in the works...
...Government, of course, could well refuse to let Grumman take a loan from the Shah (whose government recently bought a fourth of the shares of West Germany's giant Krupp combine at a cost of about $100 million). Democratic Representative Otis Pike and Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York are pressing the State Department to approve. But it scarcely seems in the U.S.'s interest to let an important defense contractor become financially dependent on a foreign government. The Pentagon is urging Grumman to seek financing from U.S. banks instead. There also is a serious political question...