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...Year. Throughout 1974, Faisal's actions about oil prices and related matters touched, in various degrees, the lives and pocketbooks of virtually every human being on earth. Politically, too, 1974 was marked by the increasing cohesion and power of the Arab world, a surging strength fueled by the largest transfer of capital in history. In all this, the shrewd and dedicated King has played a key role...
...recently grown more intense. The most notable conflict has taken place between conservatives and moderates in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, one of the nation's largest denominations (2.8 million U.S. members, 300,000 more outside the U.S.). In 1969 conservatives captured its leadership, and last winter nearly 400 moderate students walked out of its major seminary and established a rival seminary in exile (TIME, March 4). Now the Synod may well be facing an outright schism within its ranks, probably after its biennial convention next July...
...American phenomenon; Little Orphan Annie and Daddy Warbucks as capitalists; All in the Family as Greek comedy. Yet these and other bizarre topics are often the subjects of class discussions, projects and papers at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, the home of the first and largest department of popular culture...
...charging negligence, cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of due process. In October, a six-woman jury in Greenville, Miss., awarded $500,000 to Bogard, 26, who now lives on welfare with his mother in Illinois. A federal judge in Greenville recently upheld the decision, one of the largest prison-related awards ever. But attorneys for the defendants, fully aware that there are some 30 other similar cases pending, will file a motion for a new trial...
Mutual of Omaha, the nation's largest seller of individual and family health-insurance policies, calls itself in its advertising 'The People You Can Count On." In Pomona, Calif., a jury last month chastized Mutual for not living up to that billing by awarding Policyholder Michael Egan, 59, $5.1 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Egan's policy had promised him $200 a month for life if he should be disabled by an accident but only three months' benefits if he became unable to work because of a "non-confining sickness." Egan, an Irish immigrant roofer...