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...Baccalaureate sermon of 1954 he declared: "This relationship to God--the attitude of reverence--this is the paramount thing. All of us stand perpetually in need in our lives of that basic affirmation which is the essence of faith." In his 1957 address, President Pusey disavowed any tie between faith, and sectarianism in the University: "In my judgment the people who are speaking for religion in universities today should not be understood as speaking in favor of a particular church. They are not asking for special privilege...
...Dead Without You." At least 50 other record companies had a finger in the gaudy handout. ABC-Paramount paid for all taxi rides. Columbia made tapes of D.J.s interviewing celebrities and gave them to the jocks to play on the air at home. There were free bus trips, promised airborne junkets to Mexico. Squads of local beach girls in Bikinis were relieved by company-strength detachments flown in from New York. A Texas firm gave away eight pairs of sunglasses with built-in transistor radios (proud flacks claimed they cost $5,000 apiece...
...pills do more harm than good in sports where skill or judgment is paramount, e.g., a football quarterback does not usually need to be keyed up but calmed down. Said Ed Froelich, trainer for the Chicago White Sox: "What sense does it make to hop somebody up today, and tomorrow he's deader than a mackerel and loses you a ball game?" As for the A.M.A.'s observation that the use of pep pills can be detected by urinalysis, one athletic director commented: "I'd hate to have athletics get to the point where...
...angle at which one leans over the crystal ball-and everyone in Hollywood has an angle. "Conditions in the movie industry," says redoubtable Independent Producer Sam Goldwyn, "are worse than I have ever known them in the 47 years I have been connected with motion pictures." Says Paramount Pictures Chairman Adolph Zukor: "The future of motion pictures has never been brighter." Last week Hollywood could split the difference, find plenty of signs that the movie industry, for all its problems, is healthier than it has been in many a postwar year...
Wall Street has shown its faith in moviedom's future by sending stocks of producing companies steadily upward. United Artists has jumped from 15¼ to 32¼ in 15 months, Paramount from 30⅝ to 50, 20th Century-Fox from 21¾ to 43½, Warner Bros, from 16⅞ to 40. Though Standard & Poor's recently prepared an analysis warning that movie stocks are "quite speculative," it gave bullish reviews to seven of the ten companies it examined. Says a leading Wall Street movie industry analyst: "There's a great deal of skepticism...