Word: p
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHARLES P. O'CONNELL Middletown...
...months out of his own pocket. Other philanthropic works: five schools, scholarships and agricultural research. Recently, he promoted $6.000,000 in private capital to finance a low-cost housing project for poor Venezuelans. Mendoza served as a civilian member of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, but resigned in dismay four days after Vice President Richard Nixon was mobbed (TIME, May 26, 1958). "He is," says one high government official, "the first case of a Venezuelan capitalist with the modern mentality...
...half the population of Laos is thought to be made up of non-Laotian tribesmen-the Meo, Kha. Lu, P'hunoi and a dozen others like the Black Thai, White Thai and Red Thai, who take their names from the color of their clothing. Few of the tribesmen have much love for the Laotians who rule in Vientiane; some do not even know that the Kingdom of Laos exists...
...Bark. Clark, born on Staten Island, got into money finding at 16, when he persuaded a Brooklyn builder to give him an exclusive contract to obtain 5% mortgaging on 200 houses. With his $25,000 fee, he opened an office to hunt up more business. Learning that J. P. Morgan was paying 6% on some mortgaged loft buildings in lower Manhattan, Clark, 17, wrote Morgan that he could save him money by refinancing, was invited to Morgan's office. When he arrived, Morgan barked: "What s.o.b. sent for you?'' Replied Clark: "You're the s.o.b...
...present problems for any professor; he must resolve the tension between his role as apostle and his role as expositor. This tension becomes evident in courses such as History 130, "Renaissance and Reformation," in which the problems of historical interpretation are augmented by those of divergent religious claims. Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History, admits that "It is not the business of the historian to inculcate belief." Gilmore does admit in History 130 that he has sympathies, chiefly with More and Erasmus, but he is sure to indicate that he is speaking "extra-historically." Gilmore probably speaks for the vast...