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Scholar & Thinker. High-church Archbishop Ramsey is a scholar and thinker rather than a mover and shaker. He has written five books, with titles such as The Gospel and the Catholic Church, The Resurrection of Christ, The Glory of God and the Transfiguration of Christ. Theologically, he stresses Christian obedience to God; it is not for man to decide things, but to make himself God's willing instrument. Like Dr. Fisher, he is "for" church unity, but where Fisher tends to do things in committee, Ramsey tends to do them on his knees. "Ecumenism," he has said...
John L Moore, 58, administrator of the General Services Administration, the Government's housekeeping agency. Business vice president of the University of Pennsylvania since 1954, Moore has been a prime mover in the university's building program. Moore leaves Penn with his biggest planning job still on the drawing boards: the West Philadelphia Corp., a $50 million urban-renewal project undertaken by Penn and four other Philadelphia institutions to rehabilitate their ramshackle sections of the city...
Nigeria's Eastern Region has moved even faster toward U.S. ideas. Prime mover is the area's top politician, Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, a Lincoln University product who is Nigeria's Governor General. Zik brought in the Michigan State education team (financed by the International Cooperation Administration) that set up the East's $30 million University of Nigeria in Nsukka. Starting with liberal arts, the school also aims to teach agriculture, engineering, science and education to 6,000 students in ten years...
...strenuous effort to draft Manhattan Banker Robert Lovett, a Republican who held down half a dozen key offices with distinction in the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, failed because of his poor health, but Lovett was a prime mover in recommending Rusk and McNamara. Bobby Kennedy was the most reluctant candidate, fearing the public and political wrath over a brother act in the new Administration-but he was finally persuaded, after Jack conferred with him in an upstairs bedroom (to escape the milling crowds belowstairs) for 20 minutes, and again, after another wave of misgivings, at breakfast 36 hours later...
...Mountain Mover. All the Shelburne's pieces were gathered with loving care by President Webb, who founded the museum in 1947 with her late husband, J. Watson Webb, a great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Now 71, Mrs. Webb has always been a compulsive collector. "It's like being an alcoholic," she says. Her interest in collecting comes naturally: she is the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, whose multimillion-dollar collection of old masters was left to the Metropolitan Museum. Her parents were baffled when Electra got interested in Americana, and at 18 collected her first item...