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...largest denominations (2.8 million U.S. members, 300,000 more outside the U.S.). In 1969 conservatives captured its leadership, and last winter nearly 400 moderate students walked out of its major seminary and established a rival seminary in exile (TIME, March 4). Now the Synod may well be facing an outright schism within its ranks, probably after its biennial convention next July...
...amassed an estimated personal fortune of $2 billion, putting him on a par with J. Paul Getty and Howard Hughes as one of the world's richest men. The exact extent of his wealth is unknown because Hunt never invested hi anything that he could not own outright, and he had no outside stockholders in the businesses he did control. Claiming to have no interest in money itself, he once remarked: "Money . . . is just something to make bookkeeping convenient...
Harvard acquired the land in 1969, upon the death of the wife of Charles Russell Lowell Putnam '91, a wealthy New York surgeon. Under the terms of Putnam's will, the land was to be sold outright and the proceeds were to go to the Medical School for research and teaching fellowships. The valuation of the property in the will was between $1.6 and $1.7 million. When Land-Vest finally bought the land in March 1973 it paid only...
Sweet, Fat Years. At Rabat, accordingly, Assad shrewdly maneuvered to promote Arafat at the expense of Hussein. The Syrian President knew that a public political victory for the P.L.O. would be not only an outright defeat for Hussein but a private diplomatic setback for Sadat., Assad's motive: believing as he does that Egypt and Jordan were the chief Arab beneficiaries of Kissinger's step-by-step approach to a settlement, he wanted to force a return to Geneva, where he felt Syria would have a better chance of extracting concessions from Israel. "This is the best card...
This is but one response, if a typical one, by white academia to the integration of predominantly white universities. Such responses span the entire range of black-white relationships at institutions of higher learning--from active recruitment to outright condescension...