Word: marcuses
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Unwitting Help. Criticism of the trip started with Sydney's Anglican Archbishop Marcus Loane, who announced in October that he would not attend an ecumenical service with the Pope; Loane cited such doctrinal differences as papal infallibility to explain his refusal. A columnist in Turin's La Stampa criticized the Dacca stop, arguing that the papal visit would pull needed men and equipment off relief operations. A Catholic monthly in Colombo asked whether papal visits "help clarify fundamental issues or mystify them," pointing out that the Pontiff could give equally impassioned speeches in "racist Portugal" and in "underdeveloped...
Willard Bent, the head of a company that embraces Brooks Brothers, Washington's Julius Garfinckel & Co. and other stores, reports that sales are off in part because "downtown stores are just not showing the results that branches are." Stanley Marcus, president of Neiman-Marcus, has made a fortune in downtown Dallas but now prefers locations away from the center. Compared with them, he says, "it takes a lot more effort and advertising to generate downtown business...
...Dallas, Neiman-Marcus has another idea: if the air breeds black lungs, lift sail. For a fitting departure, the store will provide a $588,247 ark, "the perfect retreat from come-what-may." At 50 cubits wide, 30 cubits deep and 250 cubits long, it is slightly smaller than the biblical proportions, but still large enough to accommodate pairings of 92 mammals, ten reptiles, 26 birds, 14 fresh-water fish and 38 insects on its kennel deck. The species are presumably those that Neiman-Marcus deems necessary for setting up life in some as yet unpolluted corner of the globe...
...accept his African heritage and to use it as a cultural resource, a theme echoed today by Martinique-born Poet-Dramatist Aime Cesaire. Accordingly, many of the Caribbean's contemporary radicals, like their counterparts in the U.S., talk about a spiritual return to Africa. Says Jamaica's Marcus Garvey Jr., whose late father emigrated to Harlem and founded a Back to Africa movement there in the early 1920s: "We want to be linked with the Greater Africa." Similarly, Dr. M.B. Abeng Doonquah envisions a Jamaica based on the "African socialism" of Ghana's deposed leader Kwame Nkrumah...
Arthur B. Weissman, of Elizabeth, N. J. and Leverett House (English): Olin G. Wellborn, of Alvin, Tex., and Quincy House (English); Mahatma Kane Jeeves, of Lompoc, Minn., and Dunster House (Physics of the Fine Arts); Jeffrey W. Willbrand, of St. Charles. Mo., and Quincy House (History and Science); Marcus W. Wright, of Charlotte, N. C., and Quincy House (Mathematics): Wording Erik White, of Lawrence, Kans., and Lowell House (Biology); Robert L. Yarrish, of Cherry Hill, N. J. and Leverett House (Language and Literature); Aron Zysow, of Brookline and Dudley Houre (Classics...