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Died. Archbishop Chrysostomos, 87, patriotic ex-Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church and among the last of a generation of Greek soldier-priests; of internal hemorrhaging; in Athens. Son of a Greek oil merchant from Aydin, Turkey, Chrysostomos early became embroiled in Greek nationalist causes, and on several occasions escaped Turkish firing squads when foreign powers intervened. He was elected primate in 1962, only to be ousted last May by the military junta he swore into office a month earlier...
Others receiving degrees at Commencement exercises today were Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Pedro Gerardo Beltran, publisher of La Prensa in Lima, Peru; Livingston T. Merchant, U. S. career diplomat; J. E. Wallace Sterling, retiring president of Stanford University; and two scientists--Nobel laureate Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin and geneticist-chemist Marshall W. Nirenberg...
Livingston T. Merchant is now U.S. executive director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. A career diplomat, he has served as Assistant and Undersecretary of State and in several posts abroad...
Duncan, a onetime merchant seaman who narrowly lost to Republican Senator Mark Hatfield in 1966, vowed early "not to descend to personalities." As Morse gained ground, however, Duncan bitterly suggested that the Senator might be waging "the first million-dollar campaign in Oregon's history." A strong supporter of the President's war policies, Duncan was robbed of his chief issue against Morse when the Paris talks started...
...wine merchant of prose-witty, luxuriant, Latinate-Rolfe poured out a minor masterpiece of wish fulfillment in his novel Hadrian VII, an account of how a once-rejected candidate for the priesthood was astonishingly elected Pope out of a clear blue Roman sky. Now Hadrian has been skillfully dramatized by Peter Luke, who also relies on A.J.A. Symons' biography of Rolfe, The Quest for Corvo. The result is an effulgent theatrical success in a wan London dramatic season...