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...often crowded with secretaries and sightseers, and its cemetery is a favorite lovers' rendezvous. More than that, though, Trinity Church is a powerful, still-active force in U.S. ecclesiastical history. It is the largest parish in the Protestant Episcopal Church, with 3,900 congregants. It is also the wealthiest, with an endowment exceeding $50 million, title to 20 Manhattan office and industrial buildings, and an annual parish income of nearly...
...titular chief of a Jewish community rich in both tradition and troubles. Jews emigrated to Britain from France as early as the 11th century. Driven into exile 200 years later, the Jews returned during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, have since blossomed into one of the world's wealthiest and least persecuted Judaic communities. By the 19th century, the Rothschilds, Montagus and Samuelses made Jews a force to reckon with in British finance. Today, 40 members of Parliament are Jews, as well as 61 knights and 20 peers of the realm. Although Jews are expected to congregate at their...
...legal-aid movement. The poor, he thinks, "are more apt to become good citizens, more apt to observe the law, and to regard the law as their friend rather than their enemy," once they discover that "the law protects them to the same extent that it protects the wealthiest person in the land...
Eternal Shrine. Today, with an annual income of $130,000, Um Kalthoum is the wealthiest woman in the Middle East. For her two performances at Baalbek, she pocketed $28,000, or four times the yearly salary of Nasser. She lives in a villa on Cairo's Zamalik Island with her doctor husband, a prosperous venereal disease specialist. There are no signs that the "Star of the East" is fading. The Arabs think that with age her voice has become mellower, richer, more touching. As her followers in Egypt like to say: In the Middle East only two things never...
...another 1,000,000 are uncommitted. Meanwhile, the President has turned to pushing yet another section of the Medicare Act: a federal-state program to give medical assistance to the poor, with emphasis on children, that requires states rather than individuals to sign up. "The world's wealthiest nation," said Johnson in formally beginning the campaign, "must also be the world's healthiest...