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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your reviewer of this season's coffee-table books may dig big art books, but he obviously doesn't understand or like our innocent seashells [The Shell: Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired Design; Nov. 29]. Explain to him that all those hundreds of glistening shells that he thinks were polished and doctored actually came out of the sea just as Photographer Landshoff shows them...
...advantages of either concept over the present welfare system are numerous. Either would leave people poor by just about any definition-no plan offers more than a meager subsistence-but the most brutal poverty would be eliminated. Most of the 17 million not covered by welfare now would be included for the first time: with a floor under them, many families would begin to break the cycle of poverty that has kept them on welfare for, in some cases, three generations...
...biggest source of income, to turn Caracas into one of South America's most spectacular cities and to refurbish himself as well. Action Democrdtica ousted Perez Jimenez in 1958 and put the oil money into schools, highways, health programs and rural electrification. Venezuela still has a $900 million reserve and the bolivar is the continent's strongest currency. Not surprisingly, Barrios' slogan was a simple "continuismo...
...South Carolina Baptist Convention voted to allow Charleston's Baptist College to negotiate for $2.5 million in federal loans to construct a library and a dormitory. Virginia's Baptist leaders decided to let the trustees of individual institutions determine whether or not to take Government grants. At Fort Worth, delegates to the Baptist General Convention of Texas voted 2,960 to 40 to cut its official ties with the Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston. The purpose was to let the school-which has Heart Surgeon Michael De-Bakey on its faculty-receive state and federal grants...
Harvard could thus save about one or two per cent of its construction costs--a major saving for a University that now has about $100 million of construction under way, in the active planning state, or slated for building within the next six or seven years...