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...which his predecessor went mad.* His power in matters of faith, order and polity is far more limited than that of the Pope; yet he is looked upon as "Elder Brother" by the churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia,. Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, ATHENAGORAS I On a wooden throne, a nylon ruler...
...Friends." "Now we have a nylon Patriarch," said the Turks when Athenagoras, just back from 18 years in the U.S.,' ascended the 1,000-year-old wooden throne in Istanbul's Phanari Cathedral (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). Born a Turkish subject in a village near the Greek-Albanian border, Aristoklis Spyrou was appointed in 1919 to the Metropolitan Church of Athens. In 1930 the Orthodox population of the New World, a diocese of the Istanbul Patriarchate, needed a steady hand and a good brain to untangle a snarl of jealousy and intrigue into which the church had fallen...
PRICE-cutting in synthetic fibers is turning into a full-fledged competitive war. For the second time within a month, Du Pont cut its prices 10% to 16% on nylon, Orion and Dacron, lowering them $1.48 to $1.80 a Ib. Chemstrand Corp., which makes Acrilan at $1.40 a Ib., will probably also cut prices to keep its competitive edge...
...thin patch of pines at Kobe Sound, Fla., 25 miles north of Palm Beach, passers-by gaped last week at two odd-looking "bubble houses," the first built from designs by Connecticut Architect Eliot Noyes (TIME, June 22). Built around large nylon and rubber bubbles, reinforced with wire and then sprayed with two coats of concrete (called shot crete), the houses can withstand winds of 125 m.p.h., are sealed against the hordes of insects found in warm climates. Inside, partitions reach up just to the curve of the ceiling; only the bathroom is enclosed, with Fiberglas. The four-room...
...small to try to make smaller. By standardizing purchases of everything from office furniture to paper clips and toilet tissue. General Services Administrator Edmund Mansure, a Chicago textileman and the Government's chief housekeeper, saved $133 million. In the Post Office, switching from heavy canvas to nylon mail sacks will save $800,000 a year in freight...