Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard today awarded honorary degrees to 13 men and one woman, including New York Mayor John V. Lindsay, United Auto Workers President Walter P., Reuther, and David Rockefeller '36, chairman of the board of the Chase Manhattan Bank...
Rockefeller has held high positions in educational, cultural, and financial institutions, serving as a life trustee of the University of Chicago and as chairman of the board of New York's Museum of Modern Art. He has been chairman of the board of Chase Manhattan Bank since...
...little patronizing: ("Each regiment has its own barbershop, staffed by civilians. It's good and it's cheap. Don't think that you look like a monkey after your first 'G.I.' trim. Short hair is an Army custom.") Continuing to do magazine articles from Fort Bragg, Fielding met a Manhattan literary agent named Nancy Parker. He became her client?and two months later her husband...
...been "exploited" by a capitalistic system. The Christian churches, the delegates reported, had "not only tolerated but also profited from" the system. Of all the meeting's decisions, this was perhaps the one of greatest practical concern to American clergymen. Ever since he disrupted a Sunday service at Manhattan's Riverside Church with his demand for $500 million in reparations for American blacks ("$15 per nigger"), James Forman's Black Manifesto (TIME, May 16) has become one of the most hotly debated issues in U.S. churches...
Died. Dr. Truman B. Douglass, 67, an inspirational leader of the 2,000,000-member United Church of Christ arid vice president of Christian Life and Mission for the National Council of Churches; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Convinced that "a church immobilized by denominational division just doesn't make sense," Douglass strove for a quarter-century to unite factionalized Protestantism. His most visible success came in 1957, with the merger of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reform Church...