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...public weal. In 1911, after twelve years of uninterrupted and unprecedented generosity, he still had $150 million left. Carnegie solved the problem by establishing the Carnegie Corporation of New York and endowing it with $125 million, thereby setting a pattern that other rich Americans have since copied with exponential zeal. Despite its title, which suggests a kinship with General Motors or IBM, the Carnegie Corporation pursues no profits and pays no taxes. It was one of the first of the philanthropic foundations that have multiplied throughout this century in a conscientious -and sometimes conscience-stricken-effort by great wealth...
...Catholic hierarchy of the U.S. issued a 25,000-word pastoral letter last week that was both a summons to continued renewal of the church and a warning against excessive zeal for reform. In the spirit of recent papal encyclicals on social affairs, it urged Catholics to be concerned with the eradication of "indignity, injustice and inhumanity" on the ground that "when one of us is denied justice, all are threatened." At the same time, the letter upheld the primacy of the spiritual over the secular and censured a kind of religious amnesia that has blotted out respect for past...
...Florence." But the consul's efforts were quietly heroic in limiting the damage. Aiming at something like Is Paris Burning?, a more exciting account of a threatened city, Author Tutaev, who is a specialist in Russian affairs living in England, sets down what he has unearthed with workaday, amateurish zeal. But the facts are eloquent enough. In 1955, Gerhard Wolf, Nazi, was made an honorary citizen of Florence and cited for "acts of incalculable courage, humanity, sense of brotherhood and Christian feeling...
Reforming Zeal. When they first seized power eight months ago, the military men put such emphasis on their allegiance to King Constantine, on anti-Communism and on puritanical reforms that they appeared to be rightist defenders of the status quo. Now, after changing to mufti in order to run as civilians for office in the elections provided for in the new constitution, the ex-colonels' attitudes appear more activist. They seem not only eager to suppress leftists but also to break the power of the Greek Establishment. Under the new constitution, the monarch will no longer have power...
Ralph Nader is best known as the man who made Americans afraid of their cars; yet the scope of his crusading zeal extends far beyond defective mufflers and inadequate suspension systems. In a scant 18 months, he has piqued national concern over the side effects of medical X rays, the dangers inherent in leaky natural-gas pipelines, and the threat of damaging radiation from several models of color television sets. Last week Nader was a major force behind what Lyndon Johnson called "another victory for the American consumer...