Word: spencer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vesper Services each Sunday at 8 p.m.: Dr. Hans F. Hofmann, Harvard Divinity School (July 9): Dr. Heiko A. Oberman, Divinity School (July 16); the Rev. Robert C. Dodds, Second Congregational Church of Waterbury, Conn. (July 23); Dr. J. Lawrence Burk-holder, Divinity School (July 30); the Rev. E. Spencer Parsons, Hyde Park Baptist Church of Chicago (August 6); and Dr. Aarne Siirala, former Director of the Lay Academy, Church of Finland...
Married. Diana Cullom Davis, 22, dissident daughter of New York Investment Banker Shelby Davis, whom she briefly thwarted by declining to sign over her $3,800,000 trust fund to Princeton University, then satisfied in a still unpublished agreement; and John Means Spencer, 25, prep-school history teacher of whom her "mid-Victorian" father disapproved; in Scarborough...
Stirred into the soil, Avadex (Monsanto Chemical Co.) kills wild oats just as seeds begin to sprout. Carbyne (Spencer Chemical Co.) is sprayed on weed seedlings causing them to turn blue and shrivel, while surrounding wheat continues to thrive. Tested on wheatfields in Can ada and the U.S., the two chemicals have been a spectacular success, sometimes boosting an area's yield by as much as 15 bu. an acre. They will get their first full-scale workout this spring on the rolling wheatland of Western Canada...
Diana retorted that the "assured" life income and cash gift was news to her. Papa's pressure about the fund, she said, was actually caused by her engagement to a schoolteacher, John Means Spencer, of whom Davis disapproves, even though the young man is a distant relative of Winston Spencer Churchill. Said Diana, who herself intends to be a schoolteacher: "I hate to say this about my own father, but he is inclined to be somewhat authoritarian...
...experienced operations man was what the Sinclair Oil Corp. wanted-and what it got last week by naming President Edward L. Steiniger, 58, as chief executive officer, succeeding P. C. Spencer, 67. Steiniger made his reputation in the tough Venezuelan fields, where during one three-year period (1941-44), he brought in 105 wells out of 108 attempts. Intense and quick-witted, he believes in studying countries where the company drills, once delighted Haile Selassie with his knowledge of Ethiopia. Under Steiniger, Sinclair will spend a major part of this year's planned $182 million capital expenditure to step...