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Barnstorming Jewish congregations in the U.S. this week was a dynamic, coffee-skinned Indian from Bombay. The Honorable Baruch Bension Benjamin first came to the U.S. last month for the launching of Conservative Judaism's new World Council of Synagogues, at which he represented one of the oldest and oddest Jewish communities in the world. Its name: Bene Israel (Sons of Israel...
MONSIGNOR FRANCESCO MORANO, 87, oldest of the new cardinals, but hale and lively-minded. A scholar with degrees in philosophy, theology, canon and civil law, physics and mathematics, he will almost certainly be one of the staff planning and preparing for the Ecumenical Council...
Football games at New Haven are hearty experiences. Yale is an educational Xanadu: the Harkness bells play the 1812 Overture; heelers for the Yale Daily News (once, the oldest college daily) roll a gigantic soccer ball around the Old Campus; Mellons sprinkle millions into the University coffers; secret societies practice strange rites...
Today, on the occasion of the annual football rivalry, the CRIMSON accepts, by default, the honored title of being the "Oldest College Daily...
...With the company's nine months' earnings soaring ($3.17 per share v. $2.79 in 1958) on only slightly higher sales than last year, its directors recommended a two-for-one stock split, boosted the annual dividend rate from $2 to $2.40. For Westinghouse, the nation's oldest (73 years) and second largest electrical equipment maker (first: General Electric), the split climaxed a three-year drive to reorganize the company and recover from a crippling five-month 1955-56 strike...