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CHICAGO--The Benton Foundation, owner and publisher of the Encyclopedia Britannica, announced this week it will donate all of its stock in the encyclopedia to the University of Chicago...
...newly-created "supporting foundation" that will receive the stock is an attempt by the Benton Foundation to evade certain tax restrictions on private foundations, Larry Grinnell, spokesman for the encyclopedia in New York, said yesterday...
Since then, in return for 3 per cent of the United States sales, the University of Chicago has given its name and advice to the encyclopedia...
...labor force or to train those without skills will swell this year to $11 billion. Since the Federal Government launched its all-out war on unemployment, beginning with President John Kennedy's New Frontier in the early 1960s, a startling $88 billion has been spent on an encyclopedia of job programs. But, at the same time, the number of unemployed people increased from 3.9 million in 1962 to the current 8.2 million, and the jobless rate from...
Despite their importance, umpires are the invisible men of baseball. Players and fans insult them, though never by printable names. Official histories ignore them. The authoritative Baseball Encyclopedia contains profiles of every man who ever played or managed a team in the major leagues; it makes no mention of those who called the plays...