Word: worth
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...acclamation. But it is far more than that. Many persons who have the kindliest feelings toward him may experience misgivings about the wisdom of his willingness to continue a burden of office that involves risks for him and for the country as well. Others will think the risks worth taking because of the benefits of continuity in the Eisenhower policies...
...FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM...
...late Francisco de Assis Cambo, was back home last week after a 3½-year tug of war between Argentina and Spain. As the cream of the collection was readied for hanging in Barcelona's Museo de Arte de Cataluna, Spaniards discovered that the prize was well worth the haggling. Spread out before them was an eye-filling feast of masterpieces by Spaniards Zurburan, Murillo and Goya and such other masters as Rubens, Cranach, Tiepolo, Botticelli and Correggio...
When the decision got out, Dutch Catholic publications unanimously rose to defend the sculptor's exaggeration, argued that it suggested a frail mortal burdened and glorified by his heavenly mission. "Isn't wonder worth more than admiration?" wrote one commentator. This week the sculptor planned to meet with church authorities to urge them to change the commission's verdict. "This is Paul," Vlasblom maintained, "the man directly in the grip of God." But the commission seemed adamant and the huge clay statue, still uncast in concrete, began to deteriorate in its wrapping of old rags and oilcloth...
These are the questions posed in 101 U.S. newspapers this week by a slick new comic strip, or "fiction panel," as the trade knows unfunny funnies. David Crane follows in the soapy footsteps of those other vocational do-gooders, Rex Morgan, M.D., Steve Roper, wholesome news photographer, and Mary Worth, motherly meddler...