Word: statusful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a minor clause in the omnibus tax-reform bill passed by the House of Representatives three weeks ago by the lopsided vote of 394 to 30 (TIME, Aug. 15). But it has museum officials from coast to coast up in outraged arms. The clause eliminates the tax-free status of art donated to museums-and thereby strikes at the heart of the way in which U.S. museums have been built. In Europe, the great museums, from the Louvre and the Prado to the Uffizi, house collections that were initially accumulated by kings and princes. Most are still supported...
There are those who question the religious character of Hargis' endeavors. In 1966, the Internal Revenue Service decided that his Christian Echoes Ministry Inc. (the legal name of the Christian Crusade) did too much lobbying to deserve its tax-exempt status as a "religious and educational" organization. Hargis is appealing the ruling, but meanwhile has given his benefactors an alternative avenue of giving by separately incorporating the Church of the Christian Crusade, which has several thousand members and is headquartered in the Crusade's modern, flat-topped "cathedral" in Tulsa. So that no one will mistake his intent...
Proxy Baptism. Mormon interest in genealogy stems from the religion's status as a recent or "latterday" faith. Christ's Gospel, in Mormon belief, was lost in ancient times through man's wickedness and was not restored until Joseph Smith received his golden plates from the Angel Moroni in upstate New York in 1823. But the acceptance of the "restored Gospel," and baptism in the True Church that proclaimed it, was considered necessary to earn the highest reward after the resurrection, the "celestial kingdom." Some way, then, had to be found to bring into that kingdom those...
...years of attending these conventions," said Clark, "I've never seen anyone who has so quickly and effectively built a fire under this group as Burger." Within his own profession at least, the new Chief Justice clearly does not plan to be a defender of the status...
...aspiring individual is protective deformity. "These men and women," says the doctor, "have derangements that successfully fit them for their occupations. Cure an executive and you lower his income. Their mink-lined psychosis is one of the country's sacred mental illnesses because it helps keep the status...