Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political: both ideologies, he believed, subverted the Christian faith. An ecumenical pioneer who helped found the World Council of Churches, Dibelius was devoutly evangelical as well as Evangelical. In his sermons he preached his conviction that the Gospel was genuinely God's everlasting, ever-valid word to man. "Lord My God," he wrote in his autobiography, "Your word preserved me from skepticism and contempt, those characteristics of an age alienated from...
Shortly thereafter, she married Washington Lawyer Joseph E. Davies, who in 1935 became Franklin Roosevelt's ambassador to Moscow. Relying on what she had learned from her art dealer, Lord Duveen, Madame Ambassador began acquiring her extensive collection of czarist icons and chalices when they were put on sale by the Soviet govern-ment at 50 per gram of silver content. Mrs. Post and Davies were divorced in 1955, and she subsequently married and divorced Pittsburgh Industrialist Herbert May. The names of her latest escorts (Hotel Consultant Serge Obolensky, former Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth) provoke speculation...
...says Marvin Belew of Centerville, Tenn., 53, a civilian air-transport-command navigator in World War II and a county agent for the past 15 years. "It's a chance to help." Charles Wissenbach, 32, of Williamsburg, Mass., is a Mormon who sees his service as "something the Lord would want me to do." William Schumacher, of Catskill, N.Y., a World War II glider pilot, is leaving his wife and ten children behind for his 18month tour, says philosophically about the dangers: "If it happens, it happens...
...past four months, the British national press has been undergoing the most severe crisis of self-confidence in its history. First, an outsider-Canada's Lord Thomson-took over the London Times, symbol of Fleet Street stability. Then Harold Wilson's economic squeeze caused a drastic cutback in advertising. Finally, last week, a report confirmed the newspapers' worst fears: the industry is in dire trouble...
Habit of Succumbing. Partly as a result of this old-fashioned management, said the report, four of the 18 nationally circulated newspapers are likely to close down by 1970. Only two-Lord Thomson's Sunday Times and Cecil King's Daily Mirror-can face the future with any kind of confidence. From 1957 to 1964, newspaper profits rose 29%, while editorial costs jumped 98% and production wages soared 130%. During this period, only seven papers succeeded in increasing their revenues more than their costs. Average circulation fell 6%, which was an indication that the rise in population...