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...civil rights movement, given minor and thankless tasks. As a result of David Garrow's important book Bearing the Cross, we now know that the civil rights movement was internally riven by the time Jackson joined it. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was being shoved out of its original nest in Atlanta and was meeting resistance from established black preachers in Chicago. Jackson, who was not even a minister yet (and therefore less of a threat) was given Operation Breadbasket to operate on indeterminate territory partway between SCLC and Chicago's local pastors. The group met, as its successor Operation...
...much of a nest egg is left? That is one of many intriguing questions left unanswered. Since gross income from investments is put at $29 million, however, the Vatican's holdings in stocks, real estate and other assets can be projected to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. There are also substantial gold reserves, though their size may be exaggerated...
Worst Press Box: Yale. It looks like a pub out of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." The stools are squeaky, the space is small and you spend the whole night hoping no one will steal your notes...
...worth $750,000) and John White Alexander's Alethea ($660,000). Says Loraine Pack-Liebmann, a Manhattan art dealer: "The kid did well. Many of the works he has bought have appreciated substantially in value." Example: Severin Roesen's Vase of Flowers in Footed Glass Bowl with Bird's Nest, purchased for $175,000, may now be worth $250,000, a potential profit...
...accurate, San Francisco has only 725,000 residents. But the images of cable cars climbing past high-rises, a densely settled Chinatown and a skyline packed tightly into a nest of hills suggest a metropolis of greater heft. In recent years, however, the city's problems have fallen into sharper and more painful focus...