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...goers crowded long and lovingly around the polished fruits of Britain's gayer days. All of the exhibits were made prior to 1830 (the official criterion of antiques), and most were British-made, although there were also spoils of the age when Britons were the world's wealthiest, most avid and widely traveled souvenir-hunters...
Created out of a Puritan dread of leaving "an illiterate ministry to the churches," the nation's oldest--and, perhaps correspondingly, wealthiest and most illustrious--university has, for the past two years, been quietly resolving the greatest paradox in its 311-year history. By Commencement next month, a special investigating commission will recommend to the Corporation a revitalizing treatment for one of the University's neediest members, the Divinity School...
...most automen thought the company had the cash on hand to pay. No valuation was put on the estate. The guesses ran from $200,000,000 to $700,000,000. There was not much doubt that the Ford Foundation, with assets of over $200,000,000. is the wealthiest private charitable organization in the world...
Divorced. The Duke of Westminster, 67, one of Britain's wealthiest peers and most fabulous playboys, by his third duchess, the former Loelia Ponsonby, 44; after 16 years of marriage (ten of separation); no children; in London...
...world of closely allied economic interests, the moves of the United States, its wealthiest power, are mirrored in the financial affairs of all nations. A depression here would be an international calamity, for the proposals of the country's new leaders' portend actions that will speak louder and harsher than the sweetly-phrased statements of American delegates at the United Nations. The extreme movement right in a world going left widens the breach between political ideologies and dogma, but the economic necessities of one world will always remain...