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Died. The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Spike, 42, Protestant minister, writer (To Be a Man), civil rights leader, and executive chairman of the National Council of Churches' race commission until last December when he became head of the University of Chicago's new doctor-of-ministry program, who helped negotiate last summer's open-housing agreement in Chicago; of massive head injuries when he was bludgeoned to death by an unknown assailant in the guest room of a new religious center at Ohio State University; in Columbus...
...They have urged the government to paint all Amsterdam chimneys white to eliminate smoke and soot. They have also printed dynamite recipes for anyone interested in blowing up the burgomaster's house. When Crown Princess Beatrix married West German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg last March, they threatened to spike the city's water supply with LSD and stampede the horse-drawn wedding coach with a herd of white mice. Last week in a fourday riot, the Provos proved that they were no laughing matter...
Switzerland's Charles Cardinal Journet, presumably on Pope Paul's orders, hastened to spike further debate by reasserting the church's traditional teaching. But Zoghbi's jarring plea, says Dominican Theologian Eduard Schillebeeckx, "placed the problem on the table, and that in itself is most important...
...board that granted Duesenberry's Ph.D. was Gardner Ackley, his new boss. An Air Force statistician during World War II, Duesenberry rose from private to captain. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1946, soon made his mark with a study of consumer spending that helped to spike fears that consumers would spend too little to fuel the postwar economy. He became a full professor...
Died. Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones, 53, antic bandleader of the pistol-popping, whistle-shrieking, Bronx-cheering City Slickers during the 1940s and '50s, a square-jawed musical clown with airplane eyebrows and wildly checked suits, who was an unknown drummer when he formed the Slickers in 1942 and led them to success with rowdy parodies of sentimental hits (Black Magic, Cocktails for Two) until rock 'n' roll drowned him out in 1962; of emphysema; in Los Angeles...