Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vincent MacDowell Barnett Jr., 47, was named Colgate University's tenth president, stepping up from the chairmanship of the political science department he has held at Williams since 1946. An expert on economic aid, Barnett served the U.S. foreign aid program in Italy from 1948 to 1953, and was counselor for economic affairs at the U.S. embassy in Rome in 1958 and 1959. At Williams, Barnett is chairman of Williams' Center for Development Economics, which each year trains a group of graduate students from developing nations...
...church but still devoted to purposes of religion is the new headquarters of the American Baptist Convention at Valley Forge. Pa., near Philadelphia. Here Architect Vincent G. Kling neatly resolved a problem that had been bothering the Baptists: they wanted a building to house five separate divisions of the church's operation, yet one in which no division would be given preferential space. The doughnut-shaped structure they got houses each of the five divisions in harmonious wedges within. The Baptist Convention's highly unconventional building, clearly visible near Interchange 24 of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, has created...
...Alexander Baron's The Human Kind, the picture will have no hero: it is a vast collection of vignettes following the war from 1942 to a confrontation between a U.S. soldier and a Russian soldier in late 1945. Its stars-including Eli Wallach, George Hamilton, Peter Sellers, Vincent (Ben Casey) Edwards, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider and Melina Mercouri-are so numerous that The Victors may turn into The Second Longest Day. But there is no cause for alarm in the lofty moral tones of Carl Foreman's third inaugural. Foreman, by his own definition, is just a born...
...little and waited for normalcy to return. Adhering to this tradition, Eugenio Lopez agreed to sell off for $9,000,000 the Philippine Planters Investment Co., the holding company that controlled the Lopez sugar, cement and jute interests. Buyers: a syndicate of Philippine and U.S. investors headed by Vincent Checchi, a Washington, D.C., management consultant. The Philippine government gave its approval. But President Macapagal was not finished with the Lopez brothers. Fortnight ago, the government brought charges of personal income tax evasion against both brothers and accused Fernando of illegal interests in government contracts. Last week Macapagal ordered a probe...
Died. Rosemary Carr Benet, 64. widow of Poet Stephen Vincent Benet, whom she met in Paris in 1920 when he was an impecunious young Yale graduate working out his The Beginning of Wisdom, herself an author, poet and critic, who translated the works of Andre Maurois but was best known for her 1933 collaboration with her husband on A Book of Americans, a lyric history in verse; of cancer; in Manhattan...