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Although the original assets of the Carnegie Corporation, the eleemosynary mammoth of its day, have nearly trebled since 1911, it now ranks only seventh in size, behind the Ford Foundation (incontestably first with $3.59 billion in assets), the Rockefeller Foundation ($804 million) and the Duke Endowment ($612 million), to name the top-ranking three. With a few other large exceptions, foundations scale sharply down from there. Only about 1,500, or about one in 13, are worth as much as $1,000,000, and there are plenty of mini-foundations, such as Chicago's Robbins Charitable Fund, with assets...
...sheer size of foundations-their collective wealth and power as investors in the stock markets and their influence on U.S. society-has begun to stir criticism and concern in some quarters. When looked at in the widest context, this point of view seems unwarranted. Foundation wealth represents the tiniest fraction of all private wealth in this country, which is estimated at $2.15 trillion. Foundation grants account for only 8% of total U.S. philanthropy, 80% of which comes from the individual giver, in a gamut of generosity that embraces large and small offerings to hospitals, churches, the Community Chest and even...
...Cong growing increasingly difficult, more and more North Vietnamese are infiltrating the South in order to fill the ranks. Westmoreland estimates that the average Viet Cong main-force unit is now 10% North Vietnamese. NVA units have lately been found operating as far down the command ladder as squad-size in hamlets. And two weeks ago in the Delta, hitherto the exclusive preserve of indigenous Viet Cong, the first North Vietnamese soldier was captured...
Looking far ahead, some church visionaries see a trend toward more worship in small, homogeneous groups-either at home, at work, or in chapel-size churchlets. Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford, who believes that the traditional parish structure will eventually be an anachronism, suggests that the church should be prepared to quarter itself "in campaign tents rather than cathedrals. That would reflect the mobility of the modern church and allow it to go where the people are." Otherwise, Brown predicts, "we'll have a lot more buildings than we know what to do with...
Prompted by the pressure of soaring land costs and the national appetite for prime locations, builders lately have been stretching the skyline of U.S. cities to new altitudes. From San Francisco to Boston, apartment and commercial projects are growing to an unprecedented size and complexity for their areas. In congested downtown Chicago, a 100-story hive of offices, stores, apartments, restaurants and parking space is climbing toward completion next year. For a few years, the $95 million John Hancock Center will be the world's second-tallest (1,107 ft.) building, after Manhattan's Empire State Building...