Word: northern
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...July 1 spread on "The Nine Justices" lists Baptist Warren, Baptist Black, Presbyterian Douglas, Unitarian Burton, Presbyterian Clark, Presbyterian Harlan, Roman Catholic Brennan, Methodist Whittaker and Indefatigable Felix Frankfurter. Is Justice Frankfurter a Northern, Southern, Missouri or United Indefatigable...
Something New. Foremost in this design is Los Angeles' cry for more water. Under way now, with a big push from the Times, is the $2 billion project to bring Feather River water from the northern part of the state 600 miles into Southern California. After that: more schools (needed: a 32-room schoolhouse each week for the next 15 years), smog research, a system to replace the area's laughably inadequate public transportation muddle, better medical and cultural facilities, and -Norman Chandler's pet project-more than 600 miles of new freeways...
ASSUR-NASIR-PAL II was the terror of the civilized world. When he completed his palace in 879 B.C. in present-day Nimrud, northern Iraq, "the Great King, the Mighty King, King of the Universe, King of Assyria" celebrated with a palace-warming that included a ten-day banquet for the royal city's entire population-more than 69,000-as well as for visiting VIPs. Assur-nasir-pal II had populated his city with conquered peoples, rebuilt it from ruins, crowned it with his palace and adorned the palace with the magnificence of the day. And in history...
...rights and in the West usually lease them in 100,000-acre blocks (price to Imperial recently: $1,700,000), even the biggest outfit often finds it wise to have allies rather than shoulder the expensive risk alone. Texaco, for example, is the chief operator of the four-company Northern Foothills Agreement Group, which holds drilling rights to 3,500,000 acres in Peace River's Boundary Lake area. Some other big-time gamblers pushing out from Peace River...
June is the month for marriage. Fortnight ago the United Presbyterians and Northern Presbyterians joined (TIME, June 24), and this week in Cleveland the Congregational Christian Churches (membership: 1,342,000) and the Evangelical and Reformed Church (membership: 775,000) merged to become the United Church of Christ. The merger has been 17 years in the making. Some Congregationalists, e.g., the Cadman Memorial Church in Brooklyn, were so chary of losing their precious local autonomy in the merger with the E. & R. presbytery system that they sued to prevent the union, but lost. Says the Rev. Dr. James E. Wagner...