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...more effective in carrying them out. Churches get things done because they generate, in the think tank-speak of the day, social capital. They possess the moral authority to call people to service on behalf of others, something politicians generally lack the stature even to try. Americans, Everett Carll Ladd of the Roper Center writes in the Ladd Report, are more than twice as likely to volunteer as people in Germany or France. And the percentage of Americans volunteering, unlike participating in government, is going not down but up; it more than doubled between 1977 and 1995, from...
DIED. RORY CALHOUN, 76, rugged film and TV heartthrob; of complications from diabetes and emphysema; in Burbank, Calif. While horseback riding in the Hollywood Hills in 1943, Calhoun, then a laborer named Francis Durgin, was approached by Alan Ladd, who suggested a career in show business. Calhoun was best known for his roles in westerns and as Big Bill Longley, a good guy on the late '50s cbs drama The Texan...
...extraordinary and unique talent and phenomenal insight into the human condition," said Florence Ladd, an author and former head of the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College...
...Ladd said she believes the Harvard community is lucky that Smith chose to share her talent in Cambridge...
...That she has brought this to the stage, in our time, is a wonderful opportunity for all of us to expand our understanding of what society is about," Ladd said...