Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Journal, which bought it for $3,000,000 from the Hearst newspaper chain. Until then, the morning Sentinel had seemed content to play listless second fiddle to the long-dominant evening paper, which has 384,000 daily circulation to the Sentinel's 170,000. Since the merger, the Sentinel has acted like a feisty kid trying to beat out big brother...
Finally, Blake declared that "we must be against any church union that would in any way threaten the ecumenical movement" or diminish the obligation to cooperate with the many Christian bodies-ranging from Roman Catholicism to Pentecostal sects-that would remain outside the merger Blake proposed. The only truly Christian union, he concluded, would be one undertaken in humility, mutual forbearance, and a genuinely selfless love...
...other developments, Blake said, may have diminished the prospect of merger, and he warned that "church union delayed is church union denied." One is the tendency of U.S. churches to become involved in their own worldwide confessional relationships. The Episcopalians, for example, are committed to help weaker Anglican churches abroad through a "mutual responsibility" program that was proposed at the Toronto Anglican Congress...
Support at Radcliffe for Miss Levine's candidacy has reportedly mushroomed into a movement for coeducational commencement. Advocates of this line said that the merger of the Harvard and Radcliffe yearbooks into one publication this year substantiates their claim that the two schools have become inseparable and should be recognized as such...
Pennsy and the New York Central. Federal officials have been dropping hints that the long-sought merger will get approval if the two lines agree to take in the New Haven as well. An ICC examiner is expected to hand down a preliminary ruling on the merger this month, and railroaders expect the ruling to give the green light to the Pennsy-Central...