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Rarely Empty Seats. Fosdick was eventually won over when Rockefeller's congregation agreed to form a new interdenominational church for him. The result was the 2,500 seat, $5 million Riverside Church, above the Hudson River near Columbia University. Topped by a 28-story bell tower, Riverside drew its architectural inspiration from Chartres. Its iconography, however, included Albert Einstein and Ralph Waldo Emerson in addition to Moses and John the Disciple...
...international reputation insuring the new, the colossal, and occasionally the preposterous. Yet Lloyd's profits have been slipping since 1963. Last year the world's largest underwriting group for general insurance closed the books on 1965-three years are needed to settle claims-and reported a $91 million loss. Lloyd's last month announced a $44 million loss for 1966, despite a record income of $1.3 billion in premiums...
...Yomiuri (circ. 40,000) and as a promotional gimmick sponsored visits by American baseball teams featuring such stars as Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth. The tours were overwhelming successes, and the game soon became as popular in Japan as in the U.S. Today, Yomiuri's circulation is 5.1 million, in no small part because of the thoroughness of its baseball coverage...
...stake is a $900 million industry, mostly made up of small companies that market their products locally. Institute members are obviously afraid that the new dehydrated potato snacks could nibble into potato-chip markets and drive some of the small chip companies out of business. Dallas-based Frito-Lay, which claims to be the biggest chip maker in the U.S. and uses Comic Buddy Hackett to munch chips on TV commercials, sides with the institute. But Frito-Lay is hedging its bet by test-marketing Munchos, a potato snack that it carefully labels "potato crisps." Francis X. Rice, president...
NASA has so far provided $30 million to build the Harvard ultra-violet experiment and to process the results...