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...their father. The three trust funds produce a net income of about $100,000 after taxes for each of the seven living Kennedy children-from investments in corporate stocks and bonds, oil leases and real estate (including part ownership of Chicago's huge Merchandise Mart, of which Joe Kennedy's son-in-law Sargent Shriver is assistant general manager). Each of the seven children also gets a periodic share of the principal of the funds, but in no case does Jack, or any of his brothers or sisters, have a say in the management of them...
...pomp and misery, Spain clearly is still a place of glory, stored in such hidden sites as Poblet and such hidden artists as the blacksmith Ramon Mart...
...helped to restore Poblet over the past two years, employing a craft knowledge inherited from Gothic times, which persists in Spain as nowhere else. Screens and iron chandeliers had come from Ramon Martí's hands. But it was with a crucifix for a Poblet chapel that Martí, a "mute, inglorious Milton" if there ever was one, had shown himself a son and proper heir of the early Gothic tradition at its most triumphant...
With precisely the same tools and materials he used to straighten plowshares and make fire irons for the local peasants, Martí had hammered out of glowing iron Christ in glory upon the cross, the cross concave, as if to concentrate its radiance upon the worshiper, flames issuing from the nailheads in the hands and feet...
...expanding economy and a growth in population, the continually rising bull market has been one of the phenomena of the postwar U.S. Last week, as stocks fell lower day by day, there were those on Wall Street who mourned its passing. Cried the New York Herald Tribune: BULL MART ENDS 10-YEAR REIGN. What lured the Tribune out on a limb-and prompted other hasty obituaries of the bull-was an oldtime market tool known as the Dow Theory, fathered by Charles H. Dow, a onetime broker and newspaperman, who founded Dow, Jones & Co. in 1882. The Dow Theory holds...