Word: professor
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Melvin ("King of Torts") Belli, the San Francisco lawyer who has made being struck by an automobile almost as profitable as striking oil, unsettled the American Bar Association Convention at Miami Beach (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) with a "special seminar." His lecturer: "Professor O'Brien," a Buddha-faced little man in a $285 suit, who solemnly told the 100-odd lawyers present: "I probably got more courtroom experience than any of you guys." Expounding on income tax, O'Brien advised the barristers that the only way to come out even is to "borrow money from your friends." As other...
...where black and white work side by side. When the Rhodesian government boasted that "better-class Africans, properly dressed and properly behaved," would not be discriminated against, Drum tailored one of its Negro reporters in an expensive suit, equipped him with a certificate of education from a white university professor, then assigned him to order a meal in a Salisbury railway station cafe. As the reporter was thrown out, Drum cameras clicked...
Died. Bohuslav Martinu, 68, Czech composer and onetime visiting professor of composition at Princeton, who turned out a flood of operas (The Miracle of Our Lady), symphonies (Fantaisies Symphoniques) and chamber music, saw one of his operas (The Marriage) become a U.S. TV hit; near Basel, Switzerland...
Orthodoxy also tends to look askance at Protestant disparity and elasticity in matters of faith and order. One paper, read by Professor Chrysostom Konstanti-nidis of Turkey's Halki Theological School, was based on the assumption that Eastern church traditions are closer to original Christianity than Western traditions. Yet few Protestants took offense. Said Lutheran Professor Hendrikus Berghof of The Netherlands: "Our Orthodox friends speak very frankly. They say, 'You are not the church, and we are the church,' and we applaud. We need a real conversation...
...World Council. And the climate of Rhodes gave hope for even better relations. The two Russian observers-round-faced, balding Viktor S. Alexeev, 33, a layman on the staff of the Moscow patriarchate's foreign affairs department, and dark, beaky Archpriest Vitaly M. Borovoy, 43, professor of ecclesiastical history at Leningrad Theological Academy, had already spent three weeks studying the World Council at its headquarters in Geneva, and a delegation of W.C.C. leaders will return the visit in Moscow next December. Said the World Council's General Secretary Willem Visser 't' Hooft: "The Russian Church...