Word: nine
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...found herself faced with an unusually pathetic one. Six of her widows had suddenly died, and except for the dreaded almshouse, there was no place for their children to go. Then one day in March 1806, Manhattan's Mrs. Gra ham had an idea. She summoned nine other ladies, including Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, to a meeting, set up a board of directors of what is now New York's oldest orphanage. Last week, as the Graham School in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. celebrated its isoth anniversary, it was still just about what its founders might have hoped...
...seven brick houses, each with its own "father" or "mother," its own kitchen and dining room. But unlike other institutions, Graham does not segregate its children by ages. "A six-year-old," says Director Thomas, "looks not so much to an adult for his model as to a nine-year-old. That's the hierarchy of family living we try to keep." Through the sixth grade, children attend classes at the school. After that, they go to regular public schools in Hastings or Yonkers...
...Moscow's Vnukovo Airport one day last fortnight, five bearded Russian Orthodox prelates waited nervously for the plane from Prague. Aboard it were the latest emissaries from the West: nine U.S. Protestant churchmen representing the National Council of Churches. The Americans, in Russia for ten days of talk with Russian churchmen, were whisked off to lush quarters in the Sovietskaya Hotel, taken that night to The Bronze Horseman ballet at the Bolshoi Theater. Since, for the Americans, it was Lent, and Sunday at that, they seemed a little discomfited. "When in Rome," said one wryly, "do as the Romans...
...witches' jump followed by a drag, and an Axel Paulsen jump, were woven into a pattern of almost unbelievable perfection. The final score was decimal close, but the judges proclaimed Tenley Emma Albright winner and U.S. champion for the fifth straight year. It was the eighth time in nine meetings that she had beaten Carol...
PROXY WAR for Seiberling Rubber Co., in which management is fighting off a raid by Toledo Lawyer Edward Lamb (TIME, Dec. 26) will come to a head when the company asks stockholders to add six directors to its nine-man board at the April 23 stockholders' meeting. Reason for the enlarged board: to water down the power of Lamb and associates, who apparently have enough votes to elect at least four directors...