Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Auto Workers has learned to invest and still protect itself. The U.A.W. buys heavily in securities dated to mature about contract expiration time, in case of a strike has the money ready. "Our criteria are security, fluidity and yield-in that order," says U.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey. In quest of security for its $33 million invested funds, the U.A.W. has nearly 73% in Government bonds, a large amount in federal savings-and-loan associations, plus $2,000,000 in General Motors Acceptance Corp. debentures, which Mazey counts no risk. "If G.M. ever gets in trouble," says Mazey, expressing...
...spiritual eclecticism, and the one chosen by the late British man of letters John Middleton Murry, is to deny the divinity of Christ and reject most Christian dogma, but to cling to Jesus Christ, the man, as a kind of supreme culture hero embodying every man's unending quest for his better self. At best noble in a pagan way, at worst blasphemous and sentimental, self-made religions are immune to true-false tests, and their devotees usually ignore the irony implicit in one of the play titles of Pirandello: Right You Are, if You Think...
Fear of Resurrection. Right or wrong, Murry was far from self-righteous. In his religious quest, he enlisted a band of fellow pacifists early in World War II (though he later abandoned pacifism) and founded a Utopian community called Lodge Farm where, Sunday evenings, he delivered sermons. Not as the Scribes is a collection of these lay sermons, some of them infused with at least as much religious feeling as the average Sunday pulpit, and others simply emotional humanitarian tracts...
...about moving out and their successors queued up impatiently to move in. Last week 55 Congressmen-elect drew lots for new office suites (Pennsylvania Republican Dick Schweiker, drawing Lot No. 55, found there was no more space available, will have to wait until an office can be found). The quest for jobs on the Hill was becoming frantic. Surprisingly, many of the most anxious Capitol job seekers were Democrats: with 45 new Republican representatives, and only 18 new Democrats, a few secretaries of outgoing Democratic Congressmen were wringing their hands. The U.S. Employment Service's Capitol Hill office reported...
HANOVER, N.H., Jan. 4--The varsity basketball team began its 59th quest for the title it never has won--the Ivy championship--and lost to Dartmouth, 58 to 61, here tonight. The win was Dartmouth's first of the season...