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...statue of Father Damien, a seven-man commission solicited models from seven different sculptors. The one they approved, by a 5-to-2 vote, was a wood-and-wax model by Marisol Escobar, the whimsical Venezuelan pop-doll maker. Her model, based on photos of Father Damien taken toward the end of his life, shows his features graphically distorted by the disease that killed him. "I liked him when he was older," she explained. "He had really accomplished something then...
...church ministered primarily to the intellectual community near Columbia. Under McCracken, Riverside has become involved in trying to solve the problems of a declining neighborhood. Membership-now at an alltime high of 3,500-includes Negro and Puerto Rican poor as well as university professors. The church's seven-man staff of ministers has helped sponsor integrated housing, runs a preschool program and adult-education classes. Its radio station, WRVR, airs some of the city's best jazz programs. Riverside spends 11% of its annual income supporting such projects as an agricultural institute in India, a Y.M.C.A. school...
...reinstatement of the 7% investment credit on corporate capital spending, pumped money into a drooping mortgage market, stepped up highway and other construction spending, including $1.14 billion more released last week. Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin and his governors also took a major step last week. The seven-man board voted unanimously to reduce the discount rate-the interest rate charged banks that borrow from the Federal Reserve-from 41%, where it has stood for 17 months...
John T. Dunlop, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, will chair the seven-man committee. All the members are full professors...
Since 1952, Lamont served on the seven-man Corporation, which holds the deeds to all University land and must approve the budgets of the College and all the graduate schools. From 1945 until his election as a Fellow, he was a member of the Board of Overseers...